Is my DVD burner beginning to fail?

[Eric Shubert]

mz wrote:
> I burn copies of music CDs to take to the office or traveling. This past 
> week, I burned half a dozen different titles. Half were bad. Subsequent 
> attempts were inconsistently successful, and I discovered some of 
> the "good" ones played on only some players. Overall, a number of them 
> play on only some players, others don't play at all, and some play some 
> of the time. When they don't play, the CD players say there is either 
> no disc, "error," or an error w/ the TOC.
> 
> The drive is a NEC DVD+RW NC-2100AD. Results are the same regardless of 
> the CD-R substrate.
> 
> The program I'm using is K3B on openSUSE 11.0 w/ KDE. These are the 
> first problems I've run into since switching to GNU/Linux this past 
> November. The log doesn't show anything really obvious, which it would 
> have to be for me to spot it.
> 
> Any ideas as to what to investigate? Or should I just start shopping for 
> a new drive?
> 
> TIA,
> Mark Z.

My answer is: probably.

You might have better success at a slower burn speed, for some unknown 
period of time. That might help you postpone the inevitable (getting a 
new drive).

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'