How hot is the drive? I had some troubles with SCSI devices when they get overheated.. and I would imagine that a CDR drive might be more sensitive to heat than most drives. Jay On Tuesday 23 October 2001 09:22 am, you wrote: > 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 -- Jay Kline list at slushpupie.com http://www.slushpupie.com -- You enjoy the company of other people.