[ale] Writing CD-ROM's

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

Well, I just got ahold of a used CD writer, and I am keeping in mind that
the writer may be defective, but, I wanted to know if anyone has
encountered this before.

I have installed cdrecord.  I figured that the easiest starting point
would be to write some audio files to a CD, so I went to the directory
where I had put five wav files (44100, 16, stereo) and issued this
command:

cdrecord -dummy  dev=1,0,0 -pad -audio *.wav

This completed successfully.

...however, if I remove the -dummy from this, I get the following:

Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB:  2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0D 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 00 00 00 19 00 02 32 C3 73 02 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x02 (power calibration area is full) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid) 
cmd finished after 5.400s timeout 40s
write track data: error after 0 bytes
Sense Bytes: F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 19 00 02 37 74 00 00 00 00 00 00
cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: retryable
errorCDB:  5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 19 00 02 37 75 2C 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid) 
cmd finished after 0.007s timeout 480s

Now, I took cdrecord's word for it at first that the power calibration
area was full, because I had been messing with things for a bit, and so I
got out a fresh CD, popped it in, and lo and behold, it still declares
that the power calibration area is full.  Anybody seen this before?


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