[Fwd: Franky CD Errors]

[Net Llama!]

Are both boxes running the same version of SuSE?

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> 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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