Is my DVD burner beginning to fail?

[Bob Elzer]

Have you tried verifying the cd after the burn ? (copy the files back and
compare them ?)
"CD-R substrate" does this mean different vendor CD's ? If not, could you
have a bad batch of CD's
Can you try another vendors ?
I concur maybe a slower speed.
Do you frequently use your tray as a cup holder ? (to determine your
computer savvy level) :-)
 

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Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 9:05 AM
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Subject: Is my DVD burner beginning to fail?

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.
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