[Novalug] Burning CDs fails

[Dan Arico]

On Friday 22 February 2008 15:25, Jay Hart wrote:
> I'm running kernel 2.6.22.13-0.3, which I recently upgraded too.
>
> Last week I burned two Fedora disks, and during a media verify during
> install, the install halted due to bad media, with some sort of sector
> problem (I can't remember the exact message).
>
> This week I'm attempting to burn a openbsd 4.2 install CD.  Get the
> following message:
>
> OPC failed. Probably the writer does not like the medium.
>
> I've burned about 70 previous disks using this same exact medium (FujiFilm
> 700MB CD-R), so I'm not inclined to think its the medium.
>
> Anyone have any issues that mirror these, or am I again the lone person
> seeing this?

CD writers don't last forever. How old is it and how much use has it seen?

Dan Arico

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