For the last 10 months I've been having problems trying to burn cd's. I've replace the SCISI CD burner with a USB one and I'm still getting the same error message as before. This is the message I'm getting:

DRIVE REPORTED AN ERROR:
SENSE KEY= MEDIUM ERROR
SENSE CODE= 0x73,0x02

I've upgraded to system 9.1
Iv'e bought different brands of CD's
Replaced the SCISI Burner with a USB one.

I have a Bondi blue G3 (2nd generation).

Somebody please help.

You are omitting valuable information in your desire to spend the barest minimum of time and effort in asking for free advice.
Such as:
What SOFTWARE and VERSION are you trying to burn with?
What BURNER (make/model)?
Do you have one or SEVENTEEN items on your SCSI chain? The burner is the first/last/fourth from the last one on the chian?
What are the circumstances (trying to burn a single 900k jpeg to a disk? trying to burn 649 megs of data onto a 650 disk? trying to burn data from my hard drive? from an external storage device? from a network? Should i always try to burn at "___" speed, like I have always been trying to do?).

More info may yield more advice.

BTW: G3's are "Blue & White" (B&W). Not 'bondi'.

I need help with this problem too, when I try
to burn a Cd the message
DRIVE REPORTED AN ERROR:
SENSE KEY= MEDIUM ERROR
SENSE CODE= 0x73,0x02 0x73, 0x02
appears. I have an Iomega Zip CD 650 and I am
trying to burn 13 songs that I got off of
Napster onto a CD-R disk. Please he

I too have the same problem.

It doesn't matter if I'm copying another
musicCD or burning a couple of files off
the hard drive...

I keep getting the following error:

SENSE KEY= MEDIUM ERROR
SENSE CODE= 0x73,0x03

I using the orignal iBook, OS 9.0.4

CD-RW is: CD Cyclone USB CD-RW
using the Mitsumi CR-48x5TE drive.

Trying to burn with Toast Lite 5.0.2

I have tried (1) different brands of CDs (2)
different burn speeds 4X, 2X, and 1X (3)
doing CD copy vs. Drag and drop songs.

I get the error message every time. There
is very little I can find on the net about this
problem.

-John Foot jelly@jps.net

I get the same error. I noticed it became
worse when I had my other SCSI devices
powered off. I think the key is to have your
SCSI device as close on the chain as
possible to the mac. If you get the
problme with USB, there may be a USB
conflict. Try the turning off the extensions

Well, I get it the error on my Zip650 CD
burner when I use cheap 700MB disks,
but using HP-brand 650 discs works just
fine. Anyone know if the ZIP can burn to
700MB disks?

I got the same error and changed the
burning speed to 2X- no more problems.

My friend is having a hard time using a new Firewire CD Cyclone burner on his Powerbook G3. He has updated everything as far as software, absolute newest toast, OSX, still with OS9 as well--but nothing works. He has burned maybe 2 discs successfully (before installing OSX but can not get it to work even on the old operating system), but now when he tries the burner acts as if it is working, but when it fails he gets various boxes. If he checks the unfinished attempted disc on another drive there is nothing on it. It's as if the burner did absolutely nothing the whole time. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Lance

I've experienced this only using 16x PNY discs in a
QPS 12x firewire (external; Plextor mecanism). G3
300 DT.

Any kind of file or diski image...

Even upgraded the drive to newest 1.8 firmware by
installing the bare drive in a PC. Even if the PNY
disc works, it is unreadable in the Matsus---a OEM
CDRom. Maybe you should try 12x media...

OS 9.2.2; Occurs with any CD Burning software.

I have the same problem eith my:
Mac G3
350MHZ
2.3GB free space
OS 8.6

Lacie: Philips CCD3600 CD-R/RW
Toast 3.5.5 & Toast Titanium 5.0.2

DRIVE REPORTED AN ERROR:
SENSE KEY= MEDIUM ERROR
SENSE CODE= 0x73,0x02
POWER CALIBRAION AREA IS FULL

I have a similar problem. I have an iMac
DVD SE running OS 10.1.2 with an
external Iomega Zip CD 650 attached. I
did use Toast v 4.0 before installing OS X,
but the machine went over to Apple's
software once OS X was installed and
worked great. Unfortunately, when I
upgraded to OS 10.1.2 and iTunes 2.0
one of them must confused things. I
have upgraded Toast to 4.1.3 dumped
iTunes 2.0 and downloaded iTunes 2.0.3
and the machine still won't recognise the
CD Recorder. Anyone got any ideas?

I have a Mac G-4, ZIPCD 650 and have burned MANY CDs before. I have received the following message 16 times today at all speeds while trying to burn a data CD: sense key=medium error, sense code 0x73, 0x03. Its nice to see I'm not the only one with this problem, but what is the solution? Please help!

I reporting back regarding my solution to the error message:

SENSE KEY= MEDIUM ERROR
SENSE CODE= 0x73,0x03

(see my original post above)

After trying all the suggestions (differnet discs, extensions off, different burn rates, etc. etc. etc.) the solution was to return the USB CD-RW drive to the manufacturer. They sent me a replacement CD-RW drive and it has worked flawlessly ever since. So its quite possible, that the error indicates a bad piece of hardware and the only fix is to replace it.

After coming here to hopfully find An
Answer to my"sense error" problem ,,,and
reading everyone eles posts,,I have
dicided that the Iomege 650 Zip is "A
PIECE Of s---" .I will never Buy Another
thing from them nor will I ever recomend
there products to any one,And I work As A
salesman for BestBuy™,you lost that bet
Iomega.

i have the iomega 650 zip as well. problems with my mac. i can burn data cds at 4x but if i try audio cds, i get the medium error everyone else is talking about. if i burn at 2x, though, my problem is ok. i would love a better solution, though. i am using toast 4.1.3. is the software the problem or the drive?