Trouble burning CDs on an NEC 1300a

[Bruno Wolff III]

I have been trying to burn audio CDs on my DVD/CDRW burner and haven't been
having much luck. I tried with both the original kernel and cdrecord tools
that came with core 2 and with the updated versions in testing
(kernel-2.6.6.1.422 and a27 cdrecord packages).

I can read from the drive OK, but writing hangs before actually writing
anything. I tried using both cdroast and k3b to manage cdrecord.

I searched on google for a while and some people claim to have used
this drive on linux. They were using ide-scsi, but from what I have read
that isn't needed on 2.6 kernels.

I have flashed the firmware to revision 1.0a. (That isn't the very latest,
but 1.0b's installer only runs in windows, not DOS, so I don't have
a convenient way to upgrade further.) The problem also happened with the
original 1.05 firmware.

I am not sure if I am looking at a kernel problem, a cdrecord problem,
a drive problem or a configuration problem (e.g. using ide-scsi).

This is the log saved by cdroast during my latest burn attempt:

Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev= "ATAPI:1,1,0" gracetime=2 fs=4096k driveropts=burnfree -v -useinfo speed=4 -dao -eject -pad -audio "/tmp/.CD/track-01.wav" ...

scsidev: 'ATAPI:1,1,0'
devname: 'ATAPI'
scsibus: 1 target: 1 lun: 0
Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
Warning: The related libscg interface code is in pre alpha.
Warning: There may be fatal problems.
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to <warly at mandrakesoft.com>.
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : '_NEC    '
Identifikation : 'DVD_RW ND-1300A '
Revision       : '1.0A'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: 0x000A
Profile: 0x001B
Profile: 0x001A
Profile: 0x0014
Profile: 0x0013
Profile: 0x0011
Profile: 0x0010
Profile: 0x000A (current)
Profile: 0x0009
Profile: 0x0008 (current)
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1345536 = 1314 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
pregap1: -1
Track 01: audio   39 MB (03:55.02) no preemp
Track 02: audio   29 MB (02:55.04) no preemp
Track 03: audio   35 MB (03:32.96) no preemp
Track 04: audio   40 MB (04:00.64) no preemp
Track 05: audio   28 MB (02:48.13) no preemp
Track 06: audio   32 MB (03:14.06) no preemp
Track 07: audio   36 MB (03:34.33) no preemp
Track 08: audio   42 MB (04:14.93) no preemp
Track 09: audio   31 MB (03:05.42) no preemp
Track 10: audio   38 MB (03:49.10) no preemp
Track 11: audio   20 MB (02:03.00) no preemp
Track 12: audio   43 MB (04:20.26) no preemp
Track 13: audio   60 MB (05:57.40) no preemp
Track 14: audio   46 MB (04:33.93) no preemp
Track 15: audio   27 MB (02:42.73) no preemp
Track 16: audio   50 MB (05:02.20) no preemp
Track 17: audio   74 MB (07:20.80) no preemp
Track 18: audio   43 MB (04:17.76) no preemp
Total size:      721 MB (71:27.76) = 321582 sectors
Lout start:      721 MB (71:29/57) = 321582 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 5
Reference speed: 2
Is not unrestricted
Is erasable
ATIP start of lead in:  -11635 (97:26/65)
ATIP start of lead out: 337350 (75:00/00)
1T speed low:  0 (reserved val  0) 1T speed high:  4
2T speed low:  8 2T speed high:  0 (reserved val 10)
power mult factor: 4 6
recommended erase/write power: 3
A1 values: 02 4C B0
A2 values: 4A C8 06
Disk type:    Phase change
Manuf. index: 3
Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
Blocks total: 337350 Blocks current: 337350 Blocks remaining: 15768
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed   4.0 in real SAO mode for single session.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ...
input buffer ready.
trackno=0
BURN-Free is ON.
Performing OPC...
Sending CUE sheet...
cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150
cdrecord: faio_wait_on_buffer for writer timed out.