Failures with cdrecord

[Jim Cornette]

Janina Sajka wrote:
> All of a sudden I'm finding myself unable to burn a cd rom with
> cdrecord. I'm having the same problem on three different systems, each
> of which is running fully updated FC5. The cdrecord on each of these
> machines is cdrecord-2.01.01.0.a03-3, unchanged since March last. I'm
> also quite certain that I had no problems burning back around the
> beginning of May. I've tried a few different discs, and scsi, ide, usb
> and firewire burners--all with the similar failures like the following:
> 
> cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 200s
> write track pad data: error after 0 bytes
> BFree: 0 K BSize: 1506 K
> Starting new track at sector: 0
> Track 12:    0 of    6 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output error.
> write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
> CDB:  2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 27 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x27 Qual 0x00 (write protected) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> resid: 63488
> cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 200s
> 
> write track data: error after 0 bytes
> cdrecord: A write error occured.
> cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
> Writing  time:   11.980s
> Average write speed   9.1x.
> Fixating...
> Fixating time:    0.003s
> cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets.
> cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
> 
> Is it me? My media? Or something in some library? I've downversioned two
> kernels, but still get the same failure.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> 
> 

This thread might reveal why you are having problems.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-May/msg02794.html

I thought that there was another possible problem with cdrecord. I could 
not find the thread.

If you list the media directory, is there a blank disk directory or 
similar listed?

Just thinking that I recalled info about cdrecord issues.

Jim

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