Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Cdrecord is giving me a problem: the DVDs it writes are readable only on the machine where they were written. It wasn't always this way; older ones from the same drive/machine/software are readable anywhere. I suspect that the drive has somehow gotten out of calibration, but I'd like to avoid replacing it. One indicator is that cdrecord gives me the message:
cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150
I googled the message and got many results, but none seem particular to this message. I don't even know if the message is relevant to the problem, or if there's anything I can do to make it go away.
Is there some way to write the DVDs more conservatively that's likely to cure the problem?
If a drive has gone out of calibration, as your message seems to indicate, there is no alternative but to replace it. Drives are cheap.