I've had serious trouble with coasters recently... probably due to bad media but who can tell.
For production environments it would be great to have a variant of "write" that "verifies". I'd want it to produce some sort of a quality or match count that indicates how close the disc in the drive is to the one on the cue sheet
I'd use it so:
cdrdao disk-info -v0 --device $device
cdrdao write -n --device $device --speed 2 $1/cdrdao-*.toc
cdrdao verify -n --device $device --speed 2 $1/cdrdao-*.toc
I'd really like this two. Eight years later, it doesn't seem to be happening, but verifying writes is ESSENTIAL for studios burning CD's for their customers.