On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:55:37AM -0500, Robert wrote:
> First the most commonly asked for info: Second, the real problem is
> that for a long while now, I've not been able to burn CDs. I can't
> give examples of the exact error at the moment (not at home ATM),
> but sometimes (rarely) I can get it to do a dummy run. Most of the
> time, it never starts "writing", but instead just gives ...
> checksum? ... errors and fails out. Non-dummy runs work out the
> same, sometimes giving me coasters, sometmes not...
I used to have similar problems with my Plextor PlexWriter 4x12
internal SCSI CDR. Out of nowhere about half of my cd writes started
to fail.
What fixed my problem (at least for a short while) was setting the
cdrecord process to a very high priority (as root). I had a few lines
like this in root's ~/.bashrc:
alias makedatacd="nice --adjustment=-19 cdrecord -v -dev=0,3,0 \
-eject speed=16 cdimage"
I believe -19 is the second highest priority setting on Linux.
I upgraded to a new CD burner (a Yamaha 16x SCSI CDR) shortly after
taking this route. But I haven't had even a single bad burn since
getting the new writer.
It's something to try, anyway, if you haven't already.
Good luck!
Matt
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