I have two TEAC CD-W552E drives. Both behave pretty much the same, with or without 'burnfree' option... The system is:
- Celeron 1GHz - 256 MB RAM - SuSE 8.2 The system is dedicated for writing... Both the writer and media are 52x capable, but when cdrecord displays progress it only comes up to 25x. All the drives have UDMA enabled and each has it's own IDE bus (two on-board and one Promise add-on IDE bus for the disk). Below is the error I get... Thanks, D. scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 /usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version ([EMAIL PROTECTED] '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.75 02/10/21 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg 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 : 'TEAC ' Identifikation : 'CD-W552E ' Revision : '1.05' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1951488 = 1905 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 638 MB Total size: 732 MB (72:35.44) = 326658 sectors Lout start: 733 MB (72:37/33) = 326658 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: 359846 (79:59/71) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 27 Manufacturer: Prodisc Technology Inc. Blocks total: 359846 Blocks current: 359846 Blocks remaining: 33188 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 52 in dummy TAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 9 seconds. 8 seconds. 7 seconds. 6 seconds. 5 seconds. 4 seconds. 3 seconds. 2 seconds. 1 seconds. 0 seconds. Operation starts. 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 638 MB written. Track 01: 1 of 638 MB written (fifo 95%) [buf 76%] 2.2x. Track 01: 2 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 0.8x. Track 01: 3 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 25.0x. Track 01: 4 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 24.3x. Track 01: 5 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 25.2x. Track 01: 6 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 24.4x. Track 01: 7 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 25.2x. Track 01: 8 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 24.5x. Track 01: 9 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 25.4x. Track 01: 10 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 24.6x. Track 01: 11 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 25.5x. Track 01: 12 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 24.7x. Track 01: 13 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 25.6x. Track 01: 14 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 24.8x. Track 01: 15 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 25.7x. Track 01: 16 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 24.9x. Track 01: 17 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 25.8x. Track 01: 18 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 25.0x. Track 01: 19 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 25.9x. Track 01: 20 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 25.1x. Track 01: 21 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 26.0x. Track 01: 22 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 25.2x. Track 01: 23 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 26.1x. Track 01: 24 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 25.3x. Track 01: 25 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 26.2x. Track 01: 26 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 25.4x. Track 01: 27 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 26.2x. Track 01: 28 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 25.5x. Track 01: 29 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 26.3x. Track 01: 30 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 25.6x. Track 01: 31 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 26.4x. Track 01: 32 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 25.7x. Track 01: 33 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 26.5x. Track 01: 34 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 27.4x. Track 01: 35 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 26.6x. Track 01: 36 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 27.5x. Track 01: 37 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 26.7x. Track 01: 38 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 27.6x. Track 01: 39 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 26.7x. Track 01: 40 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 27.6x. Track 01: 41 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 26.8x. Track 01: 42 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 27.7x. Track 01: 43 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 26.9x. Track 01: 44 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 27.8x. Track 01: 45 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 27.0x. Track 01: 46 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 27.9x. Track 01: 47 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 27.1x. Track 01: 48 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 28.0x. Track 01: 49 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 27.2x. Track 01: 50 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 28.1x. Track 01: 51 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 3.2x. Track 01: 52 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 25.0x. Track 01: 53 of 638 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 100%] 24.3x./usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 6B 0C 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: F1 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, deferred error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid) cmd finished after 6.564s 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 56123392 bytes Writing time: 40.280s Average write speed 108.1x. Min drive buffer fill was 100% Fixating... WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode. Fixating time: 0.001s /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 948 puts and 885 gets. /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 476 times full, min fill was 82%. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

