[ale] CD-RW problems

Mon Nov 3 14:39:41 EST 2003

Magicdev is the culprit here. It is a nice idea but it has some fatal
flaws, as you have found. It's better in RH 9 that RH8. In 8, the cd
would lock up if I tried to burn a disk after using the CD to open a
disk. 
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 14:26, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:24:26PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Try a different media?
> 
> Media is fine.  Works great under windows and works fine now.
> 
> A quick fix was do delete the symbolic link of /dev/cdrom so gnome
> would not place the drive under automount management.  This fixed the 
> problem.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > >I removed a CD-RW from a Winbloze box to my Linux desktop.
> > >It works flawlessly under Windows.  In Linux I'm getting the following
> > >errors.  I can read CD's just fine.  I can not burn them.
> > >
> > >
> > >scsidev: '1,0,0'
> > >scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
> > >Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
> > >Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg Schilling
> > >TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> > >Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
> > >atapi: 1
> > >Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
> > >Version        : 0
> > >Response Format: 1
> > >Vendor_info    : 'BTC     '
> > >Identifikation : 'BCE1610IM       '
> > >Revision       : '0.19'
> > >Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
> > >Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
> > >Driver flags   : MMC SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
> > >Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
> > >Drive buf size : 1971200 = 1925 KB
> > >FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
> > >Track 01: data   497 MB        
> > >Total size:      571 MB (56:38.21) = 254866 sectors
> > >Lout start:      572 MB (56:40/16) = 254866 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: 359849 (79:59/74)
> > >Disk type:    Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
> > >Manuf. index: 27
> > >Manufacturer: Prodisc Technology Inc.
> > >Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 104983
> > >Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8 in dummy TAO mode for single session.
> > >Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
> > >BURN-Free is ON.
> > >Turning BURN-Free off
> > >Starting new track at sector: 0
> > >
> > >Track 01:    0 of  497 MB written.
> > >Track 01:    1 of  497 MB written (fifo  89%) [buf  66%]   8.2x.cdrecord: 
> > >Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
> > >CDB:  2A 00 00 00 02 E8 00 00 1F 00
> > >status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> > >Sense Bytes: 71 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 21 02 00 00
> > >Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, deferred error, Segment 0
> > >Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x02 (invalid address for write) Fru 0x0
> > >Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
> > >cmd finished after 0.012s timeout 40s
> > >Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > >
> > >write track data: error after 1523712 bytes
> > >Writing  time:    6.790s
> > >Average write speed 501.0x.
> > >Fixating...
> > >WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode.
> > >Fixating time:    0.001s
> > >cdrecord: fifo had 88 puts and 25 gets.
> > >cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 3 times full, min fill was 82%.
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