Eric,<br><br>It IS a coaster although when I insert the disc in this or another machine the pop-up says I have inserted a Blank DVD, properties on it show it to have no content and no free space.  Obviously some initialization was accomplished before the error.<br>
<br>BTW, googling &quot;WRITE @ LBA=0h failed with SK=0h ASC=00h ACQ=02h&quot; yields lots of results and from different distros, hardware, and media manufacturers though a lot of the same software (brasero, cdrecord, growisofs) since they are pretty ubiquitess.<br>
<br>Matt,<br><br>They are issues, problems, errors, and WTFs because English is defined and used imprecisely.  Therefore, we have words with many definitions and synonyms both real and defacto.<br><br>Thanks for your suggestions.  I will try some of them but I got the disc burned by taking the .iso to another machine with the same distro (ubuntu 9.04) and using the same method (right click on the .iso file and choosing &quot;disc burner&quot;.  I typically do not descend to command line where the gui methods work much more easily.<br>
<br>So the immediate issue is solved but I&#39;d still like to know why this happens occasionally on my HP dv6250 laptop.  Maybe it is the media issue or the thin model optical drive.<br><br>Lisa,<br><br>Thanks for the references.  The ubuntu forums one was not much help except for naming some potential causes I already knew.  The fedora reference has more detail as you say but will have to look into that one when i have more time as with Matt&#39;s troubleshooting suggestions.<br>
<br><br>-- <br>Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry<br>