CD burners not working (at all / well) with certain CD types is fairly common, even today with the last 16x generation burners. For example, the latest Yamaha (20x) has a few problems with some types of media (it can be fairly annoying if you can't use 2 different brands of blanks). That's why when I bought CD burner, I made sure it not only had Linux support but also worked with most CD types. As you probably noticed, brand CD media is "certified" for certain speeds. Some blanks even have that data burned into the disk itself (probably in the ATIP data). Some burners check that info and won't burn on speeds that haven't been "certified". On 7 Jul 2001, wolfi wrote:
Last week I had a problem with my CD-recorder (see below) and in the meantime I found a fix for it by myself, which worked as follows: I burned a CD using command line and it worked. The only problem remaining was, that I could not burn one of those greenish-blue CDs (bottom side color) on 4* speed; I have to switch down to double speed. So basically it seems that my cheap and no-longer-recent CD recorder (was ~130 Euro in April 2000 (249,90 DEMs)) does not work on full speed with these CDs. Silverish CDs used to go on 4* speed flawlessly.
So that's maybe the afterlast cheat after setting all SCSI-Emulation and stuff correctly and maybe occurs on other recorders as well [hopefully not :-))]. -- noodlez: Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 0x3A1446A0