Hm, well all the CDs I was trying were from the same batch! I guess I didnt suspect them, because on other machines, they burn correctly. Anyway, perhaps my laptop burner is picky. I will definitely try a different pack soon. Thanks <div>On 5/22/07, Peter Jones <<a href="mailto:pjones@redhat.com">pjones@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Ahmed Kamal wrote: > Hi, > It's been a month or so and everytime I burn a CD on my laptop, the process > ends abrubtly. I end up throwing the CD away and burning on another > machine. > This CD writer has always worked just fine with Linux and with this FC6 > installation specifically. I am attaching k3b's log file. Is this a known > bug ? > > Best Regards > The log of the error, here: > Track 01: 36 of 180 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 8.5x. > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Success. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error > CDB: 2A 00 00 00 49 DE 00 00 1F 00 > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > Sense Bytes: F1 00 03 00 00 47 7C 0A 00 2B 00 00 0C 00 00 00 > Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, deferred error, Segment 0 > Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0 > Sense flags: Blk 18300 (valid) > resid: 2048 > cmd finished after 5.155s timeout 200s > /usr/bin/cdrecord: A write error occured. > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above. > write track data: error after 38727680 bytes Shows that the drive is reporting the media to be bad. Have you tried any blanks from a different batch of media, or with media from a different vendor? That'd be the first step in diagnosing the problem. -- Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com"> fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a> </blockquote></div>