On Monday 19 Dec 2005 15:38, Jonathan Wright wrote: > Paul wrote: > > :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error > > That suggests a bad disk - OPC is Optimum Power Calibration and is a > test done on all discs to find out how must power is needed to optimally > write to the disc (can only be done 99 times on any disk) IIRC. > > Have you tried with another disk? > Thanks for the suggestion. I am now in the process of writing the image file using a different make of disc. How silly of me to think that if discs work on windows they should work on linux!!!!
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