[Michael Wozniak]

Hi All,
I'm suddenly having lots of problems with CD burning. It's a TDK
CDR/CDRW/DVDR/DVDRW in my XP athlon machine, which is otherwise working
fine. I've typically had maybe a 4-5% coaster rate, but suddenly that has
jumped up to about 35-40%. I'm getting these error messages from the disc
creator software (Roxio EZ CD creator):

E80041898 Write error (03/0c/00) (not sure if these are "ohs' or "zeroes")
E80041899 Write error - Buffer underrun occurred (o6/c5/oo)
E80041925 Track writer error - command retry failed (T7118)

Most of the errors have been TAO, but now DAO is giving errors, too. I've
been duping at 16x (which typically yields 10-16x actual speed), then I
tried 8x - still errors. The hard drive is an older 40gig, about 85-90%
full.
Windows says it does not need defragmenting - I have defragged recently.

The errors are occurring at diferent parts of the discs. I'm trying to dupe
200 CDs with 19 songs. Many are having errors around halfway thru - tracks
9, 10, or 11 - but some are track 4, 6, 14, 18 even.

I've never had a batch of CDs this bad. IIRC, I had previously burned about
7 or 8 discs from this particular spindle of 100 without problems. The only
thing that may have changed is that the room the computer is in is quite
warm right now - about 85 degrees.

I've made no changes to the hardware or software recently. Computer has
never been online - DAW only.

Any ideas?

thanks,
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Mikey Wozniak
Nova Music Productions
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