Hey all,

Lately my trusty old Plextor CD burner has started failing on a
semi-regular basis. I get SCSI errors that look like this:

g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 04 A3 EE 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 04 A4 A0 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 07 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x07 (write error - recovery needed) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 304288 (valid)
resid: 6144
cmd finished after 0.115s timeout 200s


I used to assume it was those crappy PNY CD-Rs, but it happens with pretty
much every brand now. Anyone know what exactly that error means? Or how I
can find out if it's the physical drive, the card, the cables or what?
(actually I replaced the card so it's not that. And the cable looks fine.
And doing 20 dummy writes in a row give no errors. And recording at a
solower speed always works. And I'm going to steal the 12x burner out of
my wife's machine anyway).

-Yaron

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