Hi all, I am having a problem with my cdr. If I run eject it opens the drive but I can't mount a disc on it or record.
mounting returns mount: No medium found burning gives me: TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '/dev/hdc' devname: '/dev/hdc' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1 '@(#)scsitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling'). Driveropts: 'burnfree' SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR ' Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W4012A' Revision : '1.06' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Current: 0x0000 Profile: 0x0008 Profile: 0x0009 Profile: 0x000A Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE VARIREC FORCESPEED SINGLESESSION HIDECDR Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Drive DMA Speed: 3574 kB/s 20x CD 2x DVD FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 1 MB Track 02: data 530 MB Total size: 611 MB (60:32.22) = 272417 sectors Lout start: 611 MB (60:34/17) = 272417 sectors cdrecord: Success. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 3A 01 00 00 Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x3A Qual 0x01 (medium not present - tray closed) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk! demudi:/dataone/forrest/ZETA_1.1_LiveCD# dmesg gives me: >Info fld=0x175, Current sr0: sense key Medium Error Additional sense: L-EC uncorrectable error end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1492 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 373 scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 3, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 00 01 76 00 00 27 00 Info fld=0x176, Current sr0: sense key Medium Error ASC= 2 ASCQ=81 end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1496 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 374 scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 3, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 00 01 75 00 00 02 00 Info fld=0x175, Current sr0: sense key Medium Error Additional sense: L-EC uncorrectable error end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1492 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 373 scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 3, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 00 01 76 00 00 01 00 Info fld=0x176, Current sr0: sense key Medium Error ASC= 2 ASCQ=81 end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1496 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 374 scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 3, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 00 01 75 00 00 02 00 Info fld=0x175, Current sr0: sense key Medium Error Additional sense: L-EC uncorrectable error end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1492 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 373 scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 3, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 00 01 76 00 00 01 00 Info fld=0x176, Current sr0: sense key Medium Error ASC= 2 ASCQ=81 end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1496 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 374 scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 3, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 00 01 75 00 00 02 00 Info fld=0x175, Current sr0: sense key Medium Error Additional sense: L-EC uncorrectable error end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1492 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 373 scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 3, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 00 01 76 00 00 01 00 Info fld=0x176, Current sr0: sense key Medium Error ASC= 2 ASCQ=81 end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1496 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 374 end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 296488 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74122 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74123 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74124 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74125 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74126 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74127 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74128 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74129 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74130 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74131 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74132 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74133 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74134 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74135 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74136 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74137 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74138 Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74139 etc. so my question is this a hardware problem? The cable? the drive? what other options. I googled a bit but couldn't get far. Oh another clue, this started happening after I added extra ram. I at first thought that since A gave it to a technician to do this he may have partially unplugged a cable so I opened up the box and pushed in all cables but it didn't make a difference... Any ideas would be most welcome thanks Aaron ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]