[ale] CD-RW problems

[Christopher Fowler]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:24:26PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> Try a different media?

Media is fine.  Works great under windows and works fine now.

A quick fix was do delete the symbolic link of /dev/cdrom so gnome
would not place the drive under automount management.  This fixed the 
problem.


> 
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> >I removed a CD-RW from a Winbloze box to my Linux desktop.
> >It works flawlessly under Windows.  In Linux I'm getting the following
> >errors.  I can read CD's just fine.  I can not burn them.
> >
> >
> >scsidev: '1,0,0'
> >scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
> >Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
> >Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg Schilling
> >TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> >Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
> >atapi: 1
> >Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
> >Version        : 0
> >Response Format: 1
> >Vendor_info    : 'BTC     '
> >Identifikation : 'BCE1610IM       '
> >Revision       : '0.19'
> >Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
> >Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
> >Driver flags   : MMC SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
> >Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
> >Drive buf size : 1971200 = 1925 KB
> >FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
> >Track 01: data   497 MB        
> >Total size:      571 MB (56:38.21) = 254866 sectors
> >Lout start:      572 MB (56:40/16) = 254866 sectors
> >Current Secsize: 2048
> >ATIP info from disk:
> >  Indicated writing power: 6
> >  Is not unrestricted
> >  Is not erasable
> >  Disk sub type: Medium Type C, low Beta category (C-) (6)
> >  ATIP start of lead in:  -11231 (97:32/19)
> >  ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
> >Disk type:    Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
> >Manuf. index: 27
> >Manufacturer: Prodisc Technology Inc.
> >Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 104983
> >Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8 in dummy TAO mode for single session.
> >Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
> >BURN-Free is ON.
> >Turning BURN-Free off
> >Starting new track at sector: 0
> >
> >Track 01:    0 of  497 MB written.
> >Track 01:    1 of  497 MB written (fifo  89%) [buf  66%]   8.2x.cdrecord: 
> >Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
> >CDB:  2A 00 00 00 02 E8 00 00 1F 00
> >status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> >Sense Bytes: 71 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 21 02 00 00
> >Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, deferred error, Segment 0
> >Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x02 (invalid address for write) Fru 0x0
> >Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
> >cmd finished after 0.012s timeout 40s
> >Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >
> >write track data: error after 1523712 bytes
> >Writing  time:    6.790s
> >Average write speed 501.0x.
> >Fixating...
> >WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode.
> >Fixating time:    0.001s
> >cdrecord: fifo had 88 puts and 25 gets.
> >cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 3 times full, min fill was 82%.
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