[ale] Can't get my CDRW drive to burn :-(

[Dow Hurst]

Try
hdparm -i /dev/scd0
to see what your drive is really set at.  Look for the * in 
the DMA or UDMA lines.

The device
/dev/sr0 and
/dev/scd0
are the same.  You might need to specify some options to 
cdrecord for your drive.

Try
cdrecord --checkdrive
to see what driver is recommended.  Since it is saying that 
it is turning BURN FREE off after starting with it on, you 
can specify for it to be off in your options.

cdrecord --help
will give all the options in a list.

Hope this helps,
Dow


Trey Sizemore wrote:
> Having some issues with burning CDs with my SUSE 9.0 install.  I'm using
> the k3b (0.10.3) and tried cdbakeoven as well.  Getting error messages
> like those seen below.  I've checked the md5 sum
> for the iso file and it's good, the CD-RW drive is recognized and I've
> tried burning as both a normal user and root (to see if it made a
> difference...it didn't :-( )  Had Mandrake 9.0 installed before this and
> had no problems with any of the GUI burners.
> 
> Here's my /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/hde2            /                    reiserfs  
> defaults              1 1
> /dev/hde1            /boot                ext2      
> defaults              1 2
> /dev/hde3            /home                reiserfs  
> defaults              1 2
> /dev/hde4            swap                 swap      
> pri=42                0 0
> devpts               /dev/pts             devpts    
> mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
> proc                 /proc                proc      
> defaults              0 0
> usbdevfs             /proc/bus/usb        usbdevfs  
> noauto                0 0
> /dev/sda4            /media/zip           auto      
> noauto,user           0 0
> /dev/cdrecorder      /media/cdrecorder    auto      
> ro,noauto,user,exec   0 0
> /dev/cdrom           /media/cdrom         auto      
> ro,noauto,user,exec   0 0
> /dev/fd0             /media/floppy        auto      
> noauto,user,sync      0 0
> /dev/sda4 /media/sda4 auto sync,noauto,user,exec 0 0 #HOTPLUG
> B3Fu.lMyX_ErKxt6
> 
> 
> Here's the error I'm getting...this time it was using cdrecord from the
> command line:
> 
> Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
> BURN-Free is ON.
> Turning BURN-Free off
> Performing OPC...
> Starting new track at sector: 0
> Track 01:    0 of  544 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output error.
> write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
> CDB:  2A 00 00 00 00 1F 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 0.001s timeout 40s
> 
> write track data: error after 63488 bytes
> cdrecord: The current problem looks like a buffer underrun.
> cdrecord: Try to use 'driveropts=burnfree'.
> cdrecord: Make sure that you are root, enable DMA and check your HW/OS
> set up.
> Writing  time:   17.019s
> Average write speed 711.6x.
> Fixating...
> cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: no
> error
> CDB:  5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 72 03 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x72 Qual 0x03 (session fixation error - incomplete track in
> session) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s
> cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s
> cdrecord: Cannot fixate disk.
> Fixating time:    0.002s
> cdrecord: fifo had 65 puts and 2 gets.
> cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 1 times full, min fill was 98%.
> 
> I tried enabling DMA on the CDRW drive (although I've never had to do
> this before, like when I used Mandrake).  Still no go.  The drive is a
> BTC 1610IM and does not support burnfree.  Currently it starts to burn
> before the error (or appears to be) but the rate is _very_ slow even if
> I've set it to 6X or 10X.  It typically fails pretty quick after that.
> 
> Some other relevant output that may help:
> 
> trey at linux:~> ls -al /dev/sr0
> brw-------    1 trey     disk      11,   0 2003-10-02 16:45 /dev/sr0
> 
> trey at linux:~> ls -al /usr/bin/cdrecord
> -rws--x--x    1 root     root       334872 2003-09-24 21:24
> /usr/bin/cdrecord
> 
> Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to provide as much info as I
> could.  Let me know if there's any other information or system data I
> can provide.  I'm anxious to get the burner working on SUSE 9.0.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

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