[vox-tech] CD-burn attempts

Rod Roark vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Fri, 17 May 2002 11:53:16 -0700


Every time I see this kind of problem, it's a defective
or incompatible CD burner.  The cheap ones don't last
very long.

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

On Friday 17 May 2002 10:36, Alexandra Thorn wrote:
> I've been trying to get some files onto a CD-RW, to bring them to my home
> computer from campus.  So far, no success.  It seems to do better in dummy
> mode than when I try to do the actual burn.  Trying to erase the disk
> doesn't seem to work at all, even in dummy mode.  I'm a newbie, and this
> is my first effort to burn a CD of any kind on any system, so I might be
> missing something that should be obvious.  Below is what gets printed out
> when I try to burn in 1) dummy mode, 2) for real, and 3) blanking in dummy
> mode.  (I've also tried blanking with the -force option.  That doesn't
> work either, but is not included below.)
> ....