Can't burn CDs

sweiss · 2006-03-06 21:39:20

Hello. For some reasons I cannot burn CDs with my combo drive.

This is what cdrecord -scanbus shows:

        1,0,0   100) 'HL-DT-ST' 'RW/DVD GCC-4521B' '1.04' Removable CD-ROM

However whenever I put a blank CD in the drive K3B complains that there is no CD in the drive.

Any ideas as to what might be causing it?

Thanks in advance.

Cam · 2006-03-06 22:53:23

Mmm, CD burning always worked great for me but I recently upgraded my hardware and magically it didn't work. I just put it down to the new hardware but I guess maybe a newer version has issues with some drives who knows.

I ended up with a temporary solution of just using cdrecord, it works ok.

cdrecord -v dev=/dev/hdc /path/to/image.iso

sweiss · 2006-03-07 09:33:24

This is the output I received from the command you suggested:

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 2.01.01a06 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2006 Jg Schilling
NOTE: this is OSS DVD extensions for cdrtools and thus may have bugs
   related to DVD issues that are not present in the original cdrtools. For
   more information see http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd.html. The original
   cdrtools author should not be bothered with problems in this version.
cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.15-ARCH
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '/dev/hdc'
devname: '/dev/hdc'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'HL-DT-ST'
Identifikation : 'RW/DVD GCC-4521B'
Revision       : '1.04'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Current: 0x0000
Profile: 0x000A
Profile: 0x0009
Profile: 0x0008
Profile: 0x0002
Profile: 0x0010
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data   368 MB
Total size:      422 MB (41:53.77) = 188533 sectors
Lout start:      423 MB (41:55/58) = 188533 sectors
cdrecord: Success. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: no error
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
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!

Of course I put a blank CD in the drive.
Any ideas?

oggb4mp3 · 2006-03-08 19:51:19

Maybe you laser is burned out?

sweiss · 2006-03-09 11:15:42

Ah, I hope not Any way I can check it?

_Gandalf_ · 2006-03-09 16:01:09

Hmmm, that's kinda weird, don't u have any other OS running on this PC? if u have windows it would bt the ideal idea, just to isolate the source of the problem wether it's hardware related or a software related one

sweiss · 2006-03-10 14:47:19

Looks like a hardware issue after all. My CD writer doesn't seem to like the blank Silverline media.

Thanks again Gandalf.

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#1 2006-03-06 21:39:20

Can't burn CDs

#2 2006-03-06 22:53:23

Re: Can't burn CDs

#3 2006-03-07 09:33:24

Re: Can't burn CDs

#4 2006-03-08 19:51:19

Re: Can't burn CDs

#5 2006-03-09 11:15:42

Re: Can't burn CDs

#6 2006-03-09 16:01:09

Re: Can't burn CDs

#7 2006-03-10 14:47:19

Re: Can't burn CDs

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