Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> writes: On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote: Depends... Issue a "SHOW DEVICE" at the dead sargent and post the output. Well...this could explain a bit: I was burning at 24x and throwing those discs at a 12x drive. :rolleyes: That generally has no correlation whatsoever. What's important is whether or not the CD-rom can read the recordable media you're using. Some record- able media works better than other in older CD-rom drives. BTW, the drive you have installed, is it jumpered for 512 byte blocks??? -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.