Problem burning/mounting cd-rom

[Leonidas Tsampros]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:05:23PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote:
> Leonidas Tsampros wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 01:46:40PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Hey,
> >>
> >>I have an Acer Aspire 1356 LCi laptop with a CD-RW/DVD-drive in it so I 
> >>can burn cds and read DVD's and cd's. But when I tried to burn and mount 
> >>a datadisk this happend:
> >>
> >>frank at Riza$ mkisofs -o tmp1.iso VirtualDub-1.6.11.zip totaal.wmv
> >>24.61% done, estimate finish Thu Jan  5 13:37:10 2006
> >>49.25% done, estimate finish Thu Jan  5 13:37:10 2006
> >>73.82% done, estimate finish Thu Jan  5 13:37:10 2006
> >>98.49% done, estimate finish Thu Jan  5 13:37:10 2006
> >>Total translation table size: 0
> >>Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
> >>Total directory bytes: 0
> >>Path table size(bytes): 10
> >>Max brk space used 8724
> >>20320 extents written (39 MB)
> >>frank at Riza$
> >>
> >>root at Riza# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 12 data tmp1.iso fixate
> >>next writeable LBA 0
> >>writing from file tmp1.iso size 40640 KB
> >>written this track 40640 KB (100%) total 40640 KB
> >>fixating CD, please wait..
> >>
> >>
> >>root at Riza# mount_cd9660 -v /dev/acd0 /mnt/dvd/
> >>could not determine starting sector, using very first session
> >>mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error
> >>root at Riza#
> >>
> >>I'm using a Philips CD-RW which I cleaned before use with:
> >>
> >>root at Riza# burncd -f /dev/acd0 erase
> >>erasing CD - 99 % done    
> >>
> >>I tried searching what I could do about it, but I couldn't realy find 
> >>something usefull. It seems that something goes wrong with burning the 
> >>CD I guess ( looking at the output when trying to mount it ) but I'm not 
> >>sure what I do wrong. Everything worked fine up until today. I hope 
> >>someone can point out what I can do about it.
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >The overall process seems to ended quite succesfully. Just try to
> >eject the cd before mounting the fresh cd that you burned. I had
> >similar issues very recently and this was the solution for me. 
> >
> >If you are bored to death, try these:
> >
> ># burncd -f /dev/acd0 (blabla)
> >(wait to finish)
> >
> ># cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 eject
> ># cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 close
> ># mount_cd9660 -v /dev/acd0 /mnt/dvd
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> Hmm I got a little bit further indeed, but it still won't mount
> 
> <burned the cd>
> 
> root at Riza# cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 eject
> 
> <manually pushed the cd-drive back ( since it is a laptop ) >
> 
> root at Riza# mount_cd9660 -v /dev/acd0 /mnt/dvd/
> using starting sector 0
> mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error
> root at Riza#
> 
> 

Have you checked dmesg for any useful messages ? If there are any, post
them in case they shed some light on your scenario.