Dan Debertin <airboss@nodewarrior.org>  wrote:
 > I'm getting unreadable CDs using the latest cdrecord from pkgsrc. I'm
 > on NetBSD-1.5.2/sparc (SS2). The drive is a (somewhat old) Yamaha
 > CDR102 WORM drive.
 > 
 > flame# cdrecord -v dev=0,3,0 speed=2 sparccd.iso


Have you tried "speed=1" just for grins?