My old burner died that way. It wouldn't fixate disks. It started with a couple and then, soon, it wouldn't fixate ANY disk. I hope this is not the case for you, but it happened to me that way. Perhaps you might try cleaning the drive with compressed air. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Austad, Jay" <austad at marketwatch.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 10:42 AM Subject: RE: [TCLUG] PNY CD-Rs? > The Memorex and Imation 700MB discs work just fine in my burner. The PNY > ones are the only ones I have trouble with, and they say "700MB" on each and > every one of them. > > The burn actually finishes, but I get an error when it fixates the disc. > Some kind of end of media error. In both my acer 12x under linux, and my > sony 4x under winXP. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Thomas T. Veldhouse [mailto:veldy at veldy.net] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 8:14 AM > > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] PNY CD-Rs? > > > > > > If you can't burn past 600MB, it sounds like a burner > > problem, not a media > > problem (I have used these same media to full capacity > > without incident on > > my HP9100i). It sounds like your laser is having problems at > > the out edge > > and or the server does not like to slow down enough to record > > at the outer > > edge. > > > > Tom Veldhouse > > veldy at veldy.net > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Callum Lerwick" <seg at haxxed.com> > > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 12:27 AM > > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] PNY CD-Rs? > > > > > > > > > I bought a spindle of 100 for $20 at best buy. They > > suck. They are > > > > > 700MB discs, but anything over 600MB fails. I'm extremely > > disappointed with > > > > > them, and I'm going to complain to PNY. > > > > > > Are you sure they're really 700mb disks? Do other brands of > > 700mb disks > > > work? I wouldn't put it beyond an ultra cheap brand like > > them to lie. ;P > > > > > > That or your burner just doesn't like high capacity media. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > tclug-list mailing list > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >