On Sat, 27 May 2006 16:02:11 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The conventional hypothesis would be that something in your equipment > silently went bad. Since the refusal is so specific to CD-R, i would say > it is the writer device resp. its firmware.
... well, I didn't touch the firmware or try to upgrade it. > > What do you get from this ? > cdrecord dev=... -atip I get this: ... Current: none Profile: DVD+R Profile: DVD+RW Profile: DVD-RW sequential overwrite Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite Profile: DVD-R sequential recording Profile: DVD-ROM Profile: CD-RW Profile: CD-R Profile: CD-ROM Profile: 0x0082 Profile: 0x0081 Profile: 0x0080 Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW 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 DMA Speed: 3718 kB/s 21x CD 2x DVD cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk! but if I put an already recorded CD into the drive I get this: ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 0 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable ATIP start of lead in: 716730 (255:255/255) ATIP start of lead out: 305317 (67:52/67) Disk type: unknown dye (reserved id code) Manuf. index: -1 Manufacturer: unknown (not in table) ... and I can read the disc. > > You could invest 20 dollar into the experiment to buy and install > a cheap CD burner. ... I might upgrade the DVD burner and move the current one to another system for read-only (it's reads CD-R fine!!) > > You could try cdrskin, a cdrecord compatibility wrapper > around libburn: > http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/cdrskin_eng.html > Yep - that seems to work... cdrskin 0.1.2 : limited cdrecord compatibility wrapper for libburn cdrskin: initializing libburn ... ok cdrskin: scanning for devices ... done cdrskin: verbosity level : 1 cdrskin: pseudo-atip on drive 0 scsidev: '2,2,0' Device type : Removable CD-ROM Vendor_info : 'OPTORITE' Identifikation : 'DVD RW DD0405' Driver flags : BURNFREE Supported modes: SAO RAW/R96R cdrskin: status 1 burn_disc_blank "The drive holds a blank disc" cdrskin: burn_drive_get_write_speed = 1385 (7.9x) ATIP info from disk: Is not erasable 1T speed low: 8 1T speed high: 8 Also, this appears to work fine ... cdrskin -v -dummy speed=16 dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -data driveropts=burnfree cd.iso ... I'm burning away as I write this.... cdrskin -v speed=16 dev=/dev/hdc -data driveropts=burnfr ee ubuntu-5.10-live-i386.iso cdrskin 0.1.2 : limited cdrecord compatibility wrapper for libburn cdrskin: initializing libburn ... ok cdrskin: NOTE : greying out all drives besides given dev='/dev/hdc' cdrskin: scanning for devices ... done cdrskin: verbosity level : 1 cdrskin: beginning to burn disk cdrskin: status 1 burn_disc_blank "The drive holds a blank disc" Track 01: data 627 MB Total size: 627 MB (71:25.69) = 321277 sectors Lout start: 627 MB (71:27/69) = 321277 sectors Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 16 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Starting new track at sector: 0 ignored nwa: -256 ctladr|trno|indx|form|scms| msf ------+----+----+----+----+-------- 4 1 | 00 | 00 | 01 | 00 |00:00:00 4 1 | 01 | 00 | 10 | 00 |00:00:00 4 1 | 01 | 01 | 10 | 00 |00:02:00 4 1 | AA | 01 | 01 | 00 |47:19:34 Track 01: 626 of 627 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 50%] 549.2x. cdrskin: thank you for being patient since 108 seconds Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 656549888/656549888 (320581 sectors). Writing time: 109.309s Cdrskin: fifo had 321277 puts and 321277 gets. Cdrskin: fifo was 0 times empty and 9617 times full, min fill was 99%. Min drive buffer fill was 50% cdrskin: burning done ... but the CD is unreadable. Hmmm. Thanks anyway - I guess I need a new burner Bob -- Bob Hepple mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bhepple.freeshell.org Public Key: http://bhepple.freeshell.org/public_keys.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
