Hi, I moved a Sony cdburner from my home machine to my office machine (testing), but am now unable to burn data cds. I am able to burn music cds (.wav files) using the command: cdrecord -v speed=16 dev=0,1,0 -dao -useinfo *.wav To burn a data file I (as root) first type: mkisofs -r -o output.file input.directory/ and then type: cdrecord blank=fast -v dev=0,1,0 speed=2 filename (I began using cd-rw because I was ruining cd-r disks--the same thing happens with cd-r disks). The machine prints out several lines of info (appended below), but then it simply freezes up about the time it begins to write. Sometimes it will write a small amount before freezing up. After nothing happens for a long while, the mouse is frozen, and the only way I know to get control back is to unplug the machine and reboot (I really really hate doing that). If I type ctrl-c while the machine is doing nothing, but before it freezes up, I get the prompt back at the terminal. But soon the cdburner starts whirring and making a lot of noise in the background, and then the machine freezes up again (and I then unplug it and start over--I'm afraid the burner will destroy itself if I let it spin forever). This is repeatable many times, with different initial directories. I then tried backing up a file that was very small, 344 kb, and things worked fine: no freezing up. But it still freezes on larger files.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ric Here is the messages I get up until the machine freezes: otte:/home/ric# cdrecord blank=fast -v dev=0,1,0 speed=2 x4.output Cdrecord 1.11a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,1,0' scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'SONY ' Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRX1611 ' Revision : 'TYS7' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1658880 = 1620 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 4 MB Total size: 5 MB (00:31.17) = 2338 sectors Lout start: 5 MB (00:33/13) = 2338 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 6 Reference speed: 2 Is not unrestricted Is erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11078 (97:34/22) ATIP start of lead out: 336075 (74:43/00) 1T speed low: ( 0 reserved val 0) 1T speed high: 4 2T speed low: ( 0 reserved val 5) 2T speed high: ( 0 reserved val 12) power mult factor: 3 5 recommended erase/write power: 3 A1 values: 02 3A B0 A2 values: 5C C6 26 Disk type: Phase change Manuf. index: 11 Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Blocks total: 336075 Blocks current: 334125 Blocks remaining: 331787 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real TAO 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. Performing OPC... Blanking PMA, TOC, pregap (at this point the machine will eventually freeze, and will require restarting. Sometimes it will get past this point and I will get a line that says something about Track 01, but it never gets past 1mb of ... written. The following message is what I get when I burn a very small file successfully:) otte:/home/ric# cdrecord blank=fast speed=2 dev=0,1,0 -v x3.output Cdrecord 1.11a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,1,0' scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'SONY ' Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRX1611 ' Revision : 'TYS7' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1658880 = 1620 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 0 MB padsize: 344 KB Total size: 0 MB (00:04.02) = 302 sectors Lout start: 1 MB (00:06/02) = 302 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 6 Reference speed: 2 Is not unrestricted Is erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11078 (97:34/22) ATIP start of lead out: 336075 (74:43/00) 1T speed low: ( 0 reserved val 0) 1T speed high: 4 2T speed low: ( 0 reserved val 5) 2T speed high: ( 0 reserved val 12) power mult factor: 3 5 recommended erase/write power: 3 A1 values: 02 3A B0 A2 values: 5C C6 26 Disk type: Phase change Manuf. index: 11 Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Blocks total: 336075 Blocks current: 322407 Blocks remaining: 322105 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real TAO 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. Performing OPC... Blanking PMA, TOC, pregap Blanking time: 42.301s BURN-Free is OFF. Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 0 of 0 MB written. Track 01: writing 344 KB of pad data. Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 262144/614400 (300 sectors). Writing time: 17.411s Average write speed 0.7x. Fixating... Fixating time: 62.836s cdrecord: fifo had 5 puts and 5 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. In response to cdrecord --scanbus I get: Cdrecord 1.11a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J\366rg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' '12.A' Removable Disk 0,1,0 1) 'SONY ' 'CD-RW CRX1611 ' 'TYS7' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) 'MATSHITA' 'CD-ROM CR-585 ' 'ZS20' Removable CD-ROM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]