CD burning problem

[Garrett Cooper]

Aaron Siegel wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am unable to burn cd with my new Sony DVD-RW. I have been fighting with this 
> for month. Sorry for have to post this message for such a basic task, Bellow 
> is the error message that is produced by cdrecord 
> 
> Thank you
> Aaron
> 
> <root at ballboy># cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd6.1) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg 
> Schilling
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> scsibus1:
>         1,0,0   100) 'SONY    ' 'DVD RW DRU-820A ' '1.0b' Removable CD-ROM
>         1,1,0   101) *
>         1,2,0   102) *
>         1,3,0   103) *
>         1,4,0   104) *
>         1,5,0   105) *
>         1,6,0   106) *
>         1,7,0   107) *
> 
> <root at ballboy># cdrecord dev=1,0,0 k3b_image.iso
> cdrecord: No write mode specified.
> cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
> cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent 
> defaults.
> cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd6.1) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg 
> Schilling
> scsidev: '1,0,0'
> scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
> Version        : 0
> Response Format: 2
> Capabilities   : 
> Vendor_info    : 'SONY    '
> Identifikation : 'DVD RW DRU-820A '
> Revision       : '1.0b'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
> cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code.
> cdrecord: If you need DVD-R/DVD-RW support, ask the Author for 
> cdrecord-ProDVD.
> cdrecord: Free test versions and free keys for personal use are at 
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
> Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
> Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 40 in real TAO mode for single session.
> Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
> Turning BURN-Free off
> cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
> CDB:  2A 00 00 00 01 55 00 00 1F 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 04 00 00 00 00 0A 4F 85 00 00 08 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x08 Qual 0x03 (logical unit communication crc error 
> (ultra-dma/32)) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
> cmd finished after 18.206s timeout 40s
> write track data: error after 698368 bytes
> cdrecord: A write error occured.
> cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
> cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: retryable 
> error
> CDB:  5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
> cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s
> cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s
> cdrecord: Cannot fixate disk.

Cheap media? How much data are you trying to burn?
-Garrett