Mike Edenfield <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/30/2010 1:00 PM, Dale wrote: > > > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > > Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 73 03 00 00 > > Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 > > Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0 > > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) > > This part is claiming that your burner was unable to figure out what the > correct power level is for writing to the media. This is entirely > controlled in hardware, so there is no legitimate reason why your > version of cdrecord should have any effect. It is almost always caused by: > > * Bad media > * Bad hardware > * Insufficient power supply
With DVD+RW, there is another possible problem: The media was written by another drive before that results in a medium state incompatible with the current drive. This is not uncommon with a company-only "standard" like DVD+. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
