Hello!
During the past week I've updated to a new system that features an
Athlon 1.33G processor and the VIA chipset. I did a direct copy of my
Linux partitions from the HD of the old machine to the HD of this
machine. On the old machine I had no problems writing CDs at 12X with
my Sony CRX160E using either xcdroast or the command line.
In this machine 12X fails every time. More testing revealed that 4X
works every time. 8X is unreliable. During the one time 8X worked, I
received the following message about 25% through the disk (a 16 track
audio CD of about 72 minutes):
Probable hardware bug: clock time configuration lost - probably a VIA 686a
Probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration
The write process continued and completed normally.
The failures generated similar output to the following:
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ...
input buffer ready.
Starting new track at sector: 0
cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 0D EC 00 00 1B 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 00 0D EC 12 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 3564 (valid)
cmd finished after 0.027s timeout 40s
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
write track data: error after 8382528 bytes
Writing time: 10.710s
Fixating...
I'm curious if there are known bugs with the VIA chipset and whether
additional testers are needed? Please let me know if I can help. 4X is
okay, but I'd like 12X!
I am using Debian Testing with a 2.4.18 kernel and cdrecord 1.10-2.4
packaged by Debian.
- Nate >>
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