This is old news now, sorry. I've been away running an exhibit booth for a few weeks at a convention. I did want to tell you that I got this problem resolved. It turned out to be the media, after all. So, I guess not all media on the store shelf is acceptable. Janina Jim Cornette writes: > Janina Sajka wrote: > >Hi, Jim: > > > >Jim Cornette writes: > >>Janina Sajka wrote: > >>>All of a sudden I'm finding myself unable to burn a cd rom with > >>>cdrecord. I'm having the same problem on three different systems, each > >>>of which is running fully updated FC5. The cdrecord on each of these > >>>machines is cdrecord-2.01.01.0.a03-3, unchanged since March last. I'm > >>>also quite certain that I had no problems burning back around the > >>>beginning of May. I've tried a few different discs, and scsi, ide, usb > >>>and firewire burners--all with the similar failures like the following: > >>> > >>>cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 200s > >>>write track pad data: error after 0 bytes > >>>BFree: 0 K BSize: 1506 K > >>>Starting new track at sector: 0 > >>>Track 12: 0 of 6 MB written.cdrecord: 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 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 27 00 00 00 > >>>Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 > >>>Sense Code: 0x27 Qual 0x00 (write protected) Fru 0x0 > >>>Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) > >>>resid: 63488 > >>>cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 200s > >>> > >>>write track data: error after 0 bytes > >>>cdrecord: A write error occured. (Seamonkey mail says occurred, could > >>>the error message state something more than "it does not work") > >>>cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above. (I did, but it > >>>was not that helpful.) > >>>Writing time: 11.980s > >>>Average write speed 9.1x. > >>>Fixating... > >>>Fixating time: 0.003s > >>>cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets. > >>>cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. > >>> > >>>Is it me? My media? Or something in some library? I've downversioned two > >>>kernels, but still get the same failure. > > I did a search on the "Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0" > > Which mentioned DAO vs. TAO mode. Maybe you could search with criteria > > Excerpt below: > and mentioned that it works okay in DAO mode but not TAO. This is > expected to be a transient problem as the driver catches up with the drive. > > http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_beginner_books/debian_linux_desktop_survival_guide/LG_CED_8080B.shtml > > > >Is it possible this could be my cdr media? Why would it be trying to > >write track 12 when I specified a .iso file (specifically boot.iso from > >the FC5 installation media)? > > This might be the problem. I never tried to grab an iso file off of the > CDROM itself. Are you copying the ISO file to the hard drive? It is a > relatively small file. > > My reasoning is that the disk with the iso file is too slow in access > time for the writer to keep up with the reader. > Another influencing factor might be that both the CD Recorder and the CD > reader are on the same controller. > Since you mentioned using USB,IDE and other readers. > > > > >>I thought that there was another possible problem with cdrecord. I could > >>not find the thread. > >> > >Thanks for looking. I also didn't find anything when I Googled. So, I'm > >wondering whether it's me or something bigger. Is it possible no one > >else is using cdrecord from the cli that there haven't been complaints? > > I believe there are a lot of die hard CLI users on the list. I use GUI > to record and let the front-end programs do the work. > > I think the lack of response might be regarding that no is sure what > options you are giving to burn the ISO. As noted above, the message > referring to the error is pretty useless. Please properly read the > message above. I did, it only indicated what I knew and all "properly > reading the message" gained was a spelling error. > > >Seems like it might be me, but media is aall I haven't ruled out. > > I suppose that you could try burning with the same media on another > machine or using another OS to test. > > Are you compiling a kernel with special features enabled or using a > stock kernel? > > Anyway, there needs to be an easier interface for bugzilla which does > not look so horrible with text based browsers. > > Jim > > > > >Janina > > > > >>Jim > >> > > > -- > You can't hug a child with nuclear arms. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. 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