This article is from the CD-Recordable FAQ, by Andy McFadden (fadden@fadden.com) with numerous contributions by others.
(1999/10/10)
You may have a bad installation of a CD recording program like DirectCD.
When you insert a blank disc, the software tries to identify it to give
you the opportunity to format it for packet writing.
If you have packet software like DirectCD or PacketCD installed, try
uninstalling it and see if the problem goes away. In some cases you
might need to get rid of windows\system\iosubsys\scsi1hlp.vxd manually.
 
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