[X4U] Weird CD-R writing problem

[Zane H. Healy]

I needed to burn some data to a CD-R tonight and I ran into something 
I've never seen before.  Unfortunately I didn't record the error 
codes that Toast 6 Titanium popped up when it failed to write out the 
tail.

Here is my setup.
Original model G5 dual 2Ghz w/3.5GB RAM
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Toast Titanium 6.0
Verbatim DataLifePlus 1-32x (Super Azo)

Instead of a normal burn pattern, the disks have rings on them that 
are a gradient from light to dark.  Very strange.  Does anyone happen 
to know if this is this an issue with the blanks, or if it's the 
drive?  I've no idea how old the blanks are, however, I do know that 
they're several years old.  They've been sitting on my computer desk 
by my monitor for probably 2-3 years, and they're older than that I 
think.

Next I tried an even older blank:
Verbatim DataLifePlus 1-16x (Azo Blue)
I wrote it at 12x, and it burned just fine.

Yes, I have a bunch of old CD-R Blanks around. :^)

		Zane


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