cannot burn a CD with plextor atapi cdrom drive on 5.4-RELEASE

[Jason Morgan]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:23:19PM -0400, user wrote:
> 
> I have:
> 
> #dmesg|grep acd
> acd0: DVDR <PLEXTOR DVDR PX-708A/1.01> at ata0-slave PIO4
> 
> which comes up as acd0 in /dev - I can mount cds in this drive just fine
> with:
> 
> /dev/acd0               /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
> 
> So far so good.
> 
> I put in a new blank CDR.
> 
> I run:
> 
> burncd -f /dev/acd0 data ./test.iso fixate
> 
> I get:
> 
> burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCNEXTWRITEABLEADDR): Input/output error
> 
> and now my dmesg contains:
> 
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_TRACK_INFO ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00
> error=4<ABORTED>
> 
> Why is this happening, and how do I change my recipe to make burning a cd
> (which should be very simple) work ?
> 

Try cdrecord and its accompanying tools.

-Jason