[ale] CD burner problems (solution) need help Suse 8.2

[ChangingLINKS.com]

You and Geoffrey were correct. It was bad media. Lesson learned: If you have 
problems burning a CD rom with a system that you know works, don't put that 
CD rom back on the top of the pile of blank CDs to be used in the future.

Anyway, my struggles were in an effort to burn the boot CD for Suse 8.2.

TRiED CDROM
1. I downloaded 
ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/suse/suse/i386/8.2/boot/boot.iso
2. I mounted the .iso to see that it "worked"
3. I burned the .iso to CD. When I mounted it, and the directory looks much 
like the working 8.1 disk that I have. 
4. The CD fails to boot my machine.

TRiED FLOPPY. (not a fan of floppies)
1. I downloaded the bootdisk and used the dd command successfully.
2. I downloaded the modules3 and used a dd command without errors.
3. I downloaded the modules1 and always get and I/O error (don't remember if I 
tried downloading it again) when I use the dd command. I did see that I 
needed a different dd command to do the modules. I tried variations and still 
get the error.

Has anyone gotten the 18-20MB boot CD to work for Suse 8.2?
Can someone give me the URL to the boot.iso that will work?

Drew



On Monday 12 May 2003 01:32 pm, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> Try different media.  I had a bad CDR in a batch of 50.  When I replaced
> that one it worked fine.
>
> Thus spake ChangingLINKS.com (x3 at ChangingLINKS.com):
> > I am having a problem gettng my CD burner to work under Suse. Below is
> > the output of what is happened (looks like it is going to work and fails
> > "OPC"). Anyone else run into this problem?
> >
> > Cdrecord 1.11a28 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg Schilling
> > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> > Using libscg version 'schily-0.6'
> > atapi: 1
> > Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
> > Version        : 0
> > Response Format: 1
> > Vendor_info    : 'IDE-CD  '
> > Identifikation : 'R/RW 4x4x24     '
> > Revision       : 'C12a'
> > Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
> > Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
> > Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO
> > Supported modes: TAO PACKET RAW/R16
> > Drive buf size : 1572864 = 1536 KB
> > FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
> > Track 01: data    19 MB
> > Total size:       22 MB (02:14.21) = 10066 sectors
> > Lout start:       22 MB (02:16/16) = 10066 sectors
> > Current Secsize: 2048
> > ATIP info from disk:
> >   Indicated writing power: 6
> >   Is not unrestricted
> >   Is not erasable
> >   Disk sub type: Medium Type C, low Beta category (C-) (6)
> >   ATIP start of lead in:  -11231 (97:32/19)
> >   ATIP start of lead out: 359848 (79:59/73)
> > Disk type:    Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
> > Manuf. index: 27
> > Manufacturer: Prodisc Technology Inc.
> > Blocks total: 359848 Blocks current: 359848 Blocks remaining: 349782
> > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real TAO mode for single session.
> > Last chance to quit, starting real write in 9 seconds.          8
> > seconds. 7 seconds.          6 seconds.          5 seconds.          4
> > seconds. 3 seconds.          2 seconds.          1 seconds.          0
> > seconds. Operation starts.
> > Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
> > Performing OPC...
> >
> > cdrecord: Input/output error. send opc: scsi sendcmd: no error
> > CDB: 54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> > Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 13 00 00 00 00 00 73 00 00
> > Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
> > Sencse Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0
> > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> > cmd finished after 7.3s timeout 60s
> > cdrecord: OPC failed.
> > cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets.
> > cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
> > --
> > Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
> > Drew Brown
> > http://www.ChangingLINKS.com
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