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05-30-2009, 02:31 PM
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F**K YOUR HEAD
Join Date: Apr 2009
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Medium write error!!!
hi everyone, first time on this part of RS
Hoping someone can tell me what's wrong
I'm using a 20" mac with a 2.66? GHz and 4gb ram
bought it last august.
Neways heres the problem
I'm on itunes and i'd say a good 50% of the time,
when i want to burn a CD it tells me "medium write error" and when it's 99% done it spits out the CD
So when i stick it in a CD player, the last track is just disappeared sorta or skippy.
I'm just using regular Sony CD-Rs from costco and they have a recording time of 80mins, the CD i wanted to burn was <75 mins, so i thought it'd be fine. I burn it at 4mb/s? and not the maximum speed. Same thing happens only 12/13 tracks are burnt onto the CD.
The 12 that are burnt work fine though.
This happens all the time and i'm going through CDs pretty fast.
PLZ!!!
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05-31-2009, 08:34 AM
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Glorious Gaming PC Master Race
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Coquitlam y0!
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update the firmware on your drive. buy better/different CD's. some cds just are not compatable.
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05-31-2009, 10:47 AM
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My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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Location: Richmond
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lower your burn speed to about 8X
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05-31-2009, 11:10 AM
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Diagonally parked in a parallel universe
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Vancouver
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at 99% eh? thats when its trying to close the disc. as others have said, try a different brand of disc and also try a lower write speed. if that doesnt work then give apple tech support a call and ask for help, they will probably book an appointment for you to take your mac to the apple store to have the drive swapped.
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05-31-2009, 12:34 PM
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The RS Freebie guru
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Yeah, I actually think that's a hardware problem with the burner.
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05-31-2009, 01:17 PM
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Los Bastardo owned my ass at least once
Join Date: Nov 2005
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when your dealing with a mac call their tech support
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05-31-2009, 03:15 PM
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My homepage has been set to RS
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Surrey
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I've seen this before.
The laser portion of the drive for burning is defunct. Call up Apple to proceed further for instructions on warranty issues.
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