<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> I have downloaded from two separate sites disk 3 of the 4 set Fedore Core 2. I have tried four times, using 2 different types of CDs, to burn disk 3 to CD and have failed with a write error as described below. /home/cgar/perm/inssu cdrecord -v speed=52 dev=0,0,0 -data FC2-i386-disc3.iso Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a19 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.75-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.75 02/10/21 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'ARTEC ' Identifikation : 'WRR-52Z ' Revision : '1.25' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Current: 0x0009 Profile: 0x0008 Profile: 0x0009 (current) Profile: 0x000A Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1359872 = 1328 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 638 MB Total size: 732 MB (72:35.60) = 326670 sectors Lout start: 733 MB (72:37/45) = 326670 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, high Beta category (A+) (3) ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66) ATIP start of lead out: 359846 (79:59/71) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 3 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation Blocks total: 359846 Blocks current: 359846 Blocks remaining: 33176 Forcespeed is OFF. Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 48 in real TAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. BURN-Free is OFF. Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 211 of 638 MB written (fifo 95%) [buf 2%] 33.3x.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 01 A6 03 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 01 A6 0B 0C 00 00 00 00 10 02 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x10 Qual 0x02 (id crc or ecc error) [No matching qualifier] Fru 0x0Sense flags: Blk 108043 (valid) cmd finished after 0.015s timeout 40s write track data: error after 221255680 bytes cdrecord: A write error occured. cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above. Writing time: 64.839s Average write speed 76.1x. Min drive buffer fill was 2% Total of 1 possible drive buffer underruns predicted. Fixating... Fixating time: 15.748s cdrecord: fifo had 3549 puts and 3486 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 1261 times full, min fill was 14%. <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> <HR SIZE="3" LENGTH="60%"> Clair Garman 301-270-2248 Takoma Park, MD The remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>