* Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I try to burn CD's with cdrecord, but I have a problem. I can burn an iso > image (made with isofs) to a blank disc, but when the disc gets fixated, I > directly get an error of the form 'Illegal Seek Error' or 'Segment not > found'. > > The idea I have of buring in track at once is: > - burn track by track starting from the center of the disc > - when fixating, go back to the center and write some final data > > On the other hand, disk at once: > - just start at the center and burn in one trip > > > Because the drive is pretty old, I have the idea that the laser > calibration is not very good anymore. So when the disc gets fixated, the > drive is unable to find the precise location to burn. Sometimes it works > correct (i.e. the disc gets fixated), and sometimes it fails. I have not > found any regularity in it.
I have an HP 7500 (2x2x24) and ran into the same problem. No amount of fiddling with it helped, so I got a new burner as they are pretty cheap nowadays. I'd be interested in hearing if you found a way around it as I still keep the old burner in an older machine. Alex. > So I want to try to burn in disc at once mode, but cdrecord does not > support that option for my drive. However, the drive specs say that it is > capable of doing that. > > For completeness: > - my drive is a HP CDwriter 7200+ (ide drive with scsi emulation) > - I record with: cdrecord dev=1,0,0 speed=2 -v fs=8m -eject data.iso > - blank cd's are Arita's (my dad never had serious trouble with these) > > So, my questions: > > - is my idea of the cdburning proces correct? > - if so, is that really the problem (and if not, what could be)? > - how to force cdrecord to burn in disc at once > > Thanks in advance, > Sebastiaan > > > > > > -- > NT is the OS of the future. The main engine is the 16-bit Subsystem > (also called MS-DOS Subsystem). Above that, there is the windoze 95/98 > 16-bit Subsystem. Anyone can see that 16+16=32, so windoze NT is a > *real* 32-bit system. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Oleksandr Moskalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
