CD/DVD writer no longer works

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Thursday, December 06, 2007 19:14:51 +0100 Wojciech Puchar 
<wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

>> /home/pauls/Downloads/FreeBSD/6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso fixate
>> burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCWRITESPEED): Input/output error
>> root at utd59514# mount /dev/acd
>> acd0  acd1
>> root at utd59514# mount /dev/acd1 /mnt/cdrom/
>> mount: /dev/acd1: Input/output error
>
> mount_cd9660 - unless you use FFS on CD/DVD.
>> CDB:  00 00 00 00 00 00
>> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
>> Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 3A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>> 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>> Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
>> Sense Code: 0x3A Qual 0x00 (medium not present) Fru 0x0
>> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
>> cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s
>> cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk!
>>
>
> looks like your device is broken - reports no disk

Looks like this is it.  To verify I booted into Windows (which I almost 
never do), and the drive doesn't work - it can't even read a disk.  So it's 
an apparent hardware failure.

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/