Cdrecord not working - please help!

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

David Curry wrote:

> Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
>
>> Robert Storey wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:53:58 -0500
>>> Steven Pasternak <stevenp500 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>> I use FC2 kernel 2.6.5-1.358 and cdrecord 2.01.1-0.FC2.1 and cd
>>>> burning WON'T WORK!! I have /usr/bin/cdrecord set to 4711 and /dev/hdc
>>>> set to 666 and no luck! the md5sum checks out, and even burning as
>>>> root doesn't work! I went through 3 CD-Rs and all wasted. My burner
>>>> has a light that is green when reading, yellow for something else (I
>>>> think fixating) and red for burning. I have tried command line and
>>>> k3b. It will "start writing", be red for 1-2 seconds, then switch from
>>>> yellow to green many times. I try to kill it, but 1. it wont die 2. it
>>>> won't let me open my cdrom (even with eject, which freezes). Finally,
>>>> after a minute, it dies and gives me a worthless, dead,
>>>> partially-written-on cd-r. cdrecord says that it couldn't fixate disk.
>>>> Could it be cdrecord, permissions, or the kernel itself? Thanks!
>>>> -Steven
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear Steven,
>>>
>>> Don't know about FC2, but on FC3, you have to do...
>>>
>>> up2date udev
>>>
>>> ...to get it working properly.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>> On FC2 that's irrelevant since the distro is not udev compliant.... 
>> I'd strongly suggest updating your kernel to *at least* version 
>> 2.6.7... FC2 was a bit jumpy on earlier versions of the kernel... And 
>> also a fully updated systems is always recommended, since many thing 
>> have been fixed since official release.
>>
> I'm also having difficulties with cdrecord on FC2, starting with 2.6.5 
> and continuing with the latest available kernel (2.6.10-1.9 [1 
> think]).  Both CD drives on the system appear to work just fine in 
> read mode.  There does seem to be some kind of conflict, though, in 
> the device definitions on the system.  The same hardware running an RH 
> 8 kernel saw the ide-scsi CD-RW drive as scsi:0.  On FC2 it is seen as 
> scsi:1
>
You are using SCSI emulation on a 2.6.x kernel?!?! turn that off!!! You 
should NOT use ide-scsi emulation on a 2.6.x kernel, the ATAPI code is 
sufficient (ide-scsi was a horrible hack, anyway), plus cdrecord and 
cdrdao are enough to record your disks with pure ATAPI interface, since 
they are specifically tuned fo that in FC2+