[Fwd: Franky CD Errors]

[Matthew Carpenter]

I've been experiencing issues writing audio CD's on a SuSE 9.0 machine: 
2.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 52x24x52 IDE CDRW.  The output from one such attempt is 
attached (as obtained from K3b).  This issue had me pulling my hair out 
(not that there's much left)  After having fixed some other potential 
issues (reseating IDE cable, crimping the power connector to fit 
tighter, etc...) and loading all available updates from SuSE the problem 
persisted, and these logs were captured.  Then, on a whim (having tried 
this before without luck) I set the speed down from 52 to 24 and wrote a 
CD flawlessly (that hasn't happened since the upgrade from 8.2).  What 
I'm wondering is if this is overriding some hardward limitation?  And if 
so, why?  I've got an almost identical machine that writes at 52x 
perfectly.  It doesn't actually write at 52x, but as fast as it can go, 
it drops down as necessary.  Why doesn't this machine?

Thanks,
Matt

ps.  I swapped CDRW drives between the machines and proved that both 
CDRW drives work equally well.  I can burn on the second machine without 
troubles with either drive (it is running SuSE 8.2, however).

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