Hi, I am using fedora 10 and k3b for burning. I am trying to burn an ISO image on DVD and I am getting the following error.
cdrecord returned an unknown error (code 254). And here is the entire debug output. Devices ----------------------- HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NS30 1.01 (/dev/sr0, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL) [DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R, Restricted Overwrite, Layer Jump] [%7] System ----------------------- K3b Version: 1.66.0 KDE Version: 4.2.3 (KDE 4.2.3) QT Version: 4.5.0 Kernel: 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 Used versions ----------------------- cdrecord: 2.1.1a03 cdrecord ----------------------- scsidev: '/dev/sr0' devname: '/dev/sr0' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Wodim version: 1.1.8 SCSI buffer size: 64512 Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device communication breaks or freezes immediately after that. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Driveropts: 'burnfree' Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'HL-DT-ST' Identification : 'DVD-RAM GH22NS30' Revision : '1.01' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Current: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording) Profile: 0x0012 (DVD-RAM) Profile: 0x002B (DVD+R/DL) Profile: 0x001B (DVD+R) Profile: 0x001A (DVD+RW) Profile: 0x0016 (DVD-R/DL layer jump recording) Profile: 0x0015 (DVD-R/DL sequential recording) Profile: 0x0014 (DVD-RW sequential recording) Profile: 0x0013 (DVD-RW restricted overwrite) Profile: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording) (current) Profile: 0x0010 (DVD-ROM) Profile: 0x000A (CD-RW) Profile: 0x0009 (CD-R) Profile: 0x0008 (CD-ROM) Profile: 0x0002 (Removable disk) Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO Drive buf size : 1409024 = 1376 KB Drive DMA Speed: 137259 kB/s 779x CD 99x DVD FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Speed set to 5540 KB/s Track 01: data 167 MB Total size: 192 MB (19:06.48) = 85986 sectors Lout start: 193 MB (19:08/36) = 85986 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 HINT: use dvd+rw-mediainfo from dvd+rw-tools for information extraction. Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks remaining: 2212510 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4.0 in real force SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 2 seconds. 1 seconds. 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 0 of 167 MB written. Errno: 5 (Input/output error), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 80 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x80 (write error) [No matching qualifier] Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 2.054s timeout 200s wodim: A write error occured. wodim: Please properly read the error message above. write track data: error after 0 bytes Writing time: 13.911s Average write speed 18.1x. Fixating... Fixating time: 0.002s wodim: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets. wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. cdrecord command: ----------------------- /usr/bin/cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/sr0 speed=4 -sao driveropts=burnfree -force -ignsize -data -tsize=85986s - --- Thanks, Ravikanth