All of this said. Can I ask for the facts? Does any one know what the
last "working" Mandrake disto. of cdrecord is?
Thanks
M. Hahn
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
> I've already solved my own problem.
>
> The version of cdrecord and/or mkisofs in the Mandrake 7.0
> distribution is broken. I used the versions included with "scdbackup"
> and they work just fine.
>
> I must say that this is just one of a NUMBER of reasons why I like the
> mailing list a lot but I never plan to install another Mandrake
> distibution again.
>
> The best distribution, IMHO, BTW, is Caldera's OpenLinux; as soon as
> they come out with an X 3.3.6+ -based distribution I'll be switching
> back . . . though I wish that I could get a Pentium-optimized
> distribution that I liked . . .
>
> [Actually, I like FreeBSD even better but it doesn't support vmware or
> the Sparq drive, and I'm afraid that's fatal.]
>
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
> | As a first try, you might want to try giving the -force option and see
> | whether that works for you.
> |
> | But, once again, as seems to happen so often on this list, a topic
> | comes up just as I am about to bring up the subject myself. I am
> | having some severe problems with writing CDs under Mandrake 7.0; thye
> | are coming out corrupt!
> |
> | This is a bit distressing since I have been, and intended to continue,
> | using CD-ROMs as my primary backup medium. But yesterday I discovered
> | that although cdrecord thinks that it has succeeeded, the actual
> | contents of the CDs tend to be corrupt, and if I turn around and "cmp"
> | a long binary file that I write with cdrecord, it's corrupt.
> |
> | This did not happen with RedHat 6.1.
> |
> | I should admit up front that, as a result of problems documented
> | earlier in the list, I've built my own kernel, but I built it in
> | exactly the same way that I had built it under RedHat 6.1, so I believe
> | that the situation is comparable. And I'm burning the same kids of
> | CDs, at the same speed, on the same hardware, as I was under RedHat.
> |
> | Any ideas?
> |
> | [bts@i7500 hero]# mkisofs hc.zip | cdrecord dev=0,0 speed=4 -
> | Cdrecord release 1.8a29 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 J�rg Schilling
> | scsidev: '0,0'
> | scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
> | Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> | Device type : Removable CD-ROM
> | Version : 0
> | Response Format: 1
> | Vendor_info : 'MATSHITA'
> | Identifikation : 'UJDA310 '
> | Revision : '1.32'
> | Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
> | Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
> | Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
> | cdrecord: WARNING: Track size unknown. Data may not fit on disk.
> | Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session.
> | Last chance to quit, starting real write in 9 seconds.Total extents actually
>written = 1062
> | Total translation table size: 0
> | Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
> | Total directory bytes: 0
> | Path table size(bytes): 10
> | Max brk space used 3000
> | 1062 extents written (2 Mb) 1 seconds.
> |
> | WARNING: padding up to secsize.
> | Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 2174993/2177024 (1063 sectors).
> | [bts@i7500 hero]# mount /E
> | [bts@i7500 hero]# cmp hc.zip /E/hc.zip
> | hc.zip /E/hc.zip differ: char 983041, line 3746
> |
> |
> | On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> | | Hi,
> | |
> | | I'm just doing my first steps in cd-burning.
> | : <snip>
> | | # cdrecord blank=all dev=4,0
> | |
> | | Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in write mode for single session.
> | | Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
> | |
> | | It starts working but after a *long* time I get this final verdict:
> | |
> | | cdrecord: I/O-Error. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
> | | CDB: A1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> | | status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> | | Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 04 2C 6C 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 07 00 00
> | | Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
> | | Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x07 (write error - recovery needed) Fru 0x0
> | | Sense flags: Blk 273516 (valid)
> | | cmd finished after 1914.743s timeout 9600s
> | | cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting.
> | |
> | | Is it a matter of medium? I use BASF (silver/silver) CD-RW 650M / 74 Min
> | |
> | | How can I use CD-RWs with cdrecord so I can blank and reuse them?
> | |
> | | BTW: I already did man cdrecord (there I found the blank command).
> |
> | I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger).
> | I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
> | I support http://www.eff.org & http://www.programming-freedom.org .
> | I boycott amazon.com. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html .
> --
> I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger).
> I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
> I support http://www.eff.org & http://www.programming-freedom.org .
> I boycott amazon.com. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html .
