cdrecord always corrupting CDs

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Tue May 22 20:19:36 UTC 2007


Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> Hi,
> It's been a month or so and everytime I burn a CD on my laptop, the process
> ends abrubtly. I end up throwing the CD away and burning on another 
> machine.
> This CD writer has always worked just fine with Linux and with this FC6
> installation specifically. I am attaching k3b's log file. Is this a known
> bug ?
> 
> Best Regards
> 

The log of the error, here:

> Track 01:   36 of  180 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]   8.5x.
> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Success. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
> CDB:  2A 00 00 00 49 DE 00 00 1F 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: F1 00 03 00 00 47 7C 0A 00 2B 00 00 0C 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, deferred error, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 18300 (valid) 
> resid: 2048
> cmd finished after 5.155s timeout 200s
> /usr/bin/cdrecord: A write error occured.
> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
> write track data: error after 38727680 bytes

Shows that the drive is reporting the media to be bad.  Have you tried 
any blanks from a different batch of media, or with media from a 
different vendor?  That'd be the first step in diagnosing the problem.

-- 
   Peter




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