Yesterday, Benjamin Scott gleaned this insight:
> Your disc is ruined. Try again. I recommend the "-dummy" switch.
>
> If *any* error occurs during *any* part of the recording process, the entire
> CD-R medium is ruined. CD-R works by heating the medium up with a high
It's worth noting here that some read errors are recoverable, if the
program doing the reading does sufficient retries. cdrecord now comes
with an ancillary program called readcd that does this. The CD recording
howto describes its use.
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