The VCR King
Well-Known Member
...Either dying drive or just needed a firmware update.
Guys I figured it out. Bad blanks. I bought a used TDK CDRW4008B drive at a Goodwill for $5 and put it in my external enclosure. I burned one of my current blank CDs (from the only spindle I have, some verbatim printables) and it failed four times before it burned a good copy on the TDK, and my Samsung took five tries before it burned a good disc. I then bought a brand-new spindle of Memorex CD-Rs and both worked perfectly first try. So this whole time I had crap blanks.