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Bes

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Registered: 2007-06-20

Posts: 79

CD Burning: Fails all the time?

Hi

Trying to burn an ISO using my BenQ burner (IDE) using "CD/DVD Creator" and it fails every time right at the end. Other ISOs fail too. Anyone know why this might be?

Thanks

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

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Re: CD Burning: Fails all the time?

make sure DMA is enabled, that caused some issues for me.

Bes

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Registered: 2007-06-20

Posts: 79

Re: CD Burning: Fails all the time?

Arrgh Ok checking in properties it says the connection is SCSI and I cannot enable DMA when I try from the command line.

If I use Brasero to try and burn at 16X it says:

"The Disc in DVD Dw1620 is not writable, please replace with a writable disc" after like 1 second of burning & seems to render the disc unusable

Then the drive just spins up for eternity and won't stop or let me eject until reboot.

Please help this is doing my nut in and I desperatley need to burn some stuff.

Thanks

Last edited by Bes (2007-08-26 09:57:00)

Bes

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Registered: 2007-06-20

Posts: 79

Re: CD Burning: Fails all the time?

Ok got this in command line burn now but cannot burn using any actual app

root@sam# cdrecord dev= scd1 -v -eject speed=8 e-xpc2my2k7r.iso 
wodim: No write mode specified.
wodim: Asuming -tao mode.
wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: 'scd1'
devname: 'scd1'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
wodim: No such file or directory. 
Cannot open SCSI driver!
For possible targets try 'wodim --devices' or 'wodim -scanbus'.
For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'.
For IDE/ATAPI devices configuration, see the file README.ATAPI.setup from
the wodim documentation.
y2k7r.iso winXP SP2 may 2007]# cdrecord dev= /dev/scd1 -v -eject speed=8 e-xpc2m 
wodim: No write mode specified.
wodim: Asuming -tao mode.
wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '/dev/scd1'
devname: '/dev/scd1'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Wodim version: 1.1.6
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : 
Vendor_info    : 'BENQ    '
Identification : 'DVD DD DW1620   '
Revision       : 'B7W9'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: 0x0009 (CD-R)
Profile: 0x002B (DVD+R/DL) 
Profile: 0x001B (DVD+R) 
Profile: 0x001A (DVD+RW) 
Profile: 0x0014 (DVD-RW sequential recording) 
Profile: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording) 
Profile: 0x0010 (DVD-ROM) 
Profile: 0x000A (CD-RW) 
Profile: 0x0009 (CD-R) (current)
Profile: 0x0008 (CD-ROM) 
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1073152 = 1048 KB
Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device
communication breaks or freezes immediately after that.
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data   613 MB        
Total size:      704 MB (69:50.14) = 314261 sectors
Lout start:      705 MB (69:52/11) = 314261 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
  Indicated writing power: 5
  Is not unrestricted
  Is not erasable
  Disk sub type: Medium Type B, low Beta category (B-) (4)
  ATIP start of lead in:  -11607 (97:27/18)
  ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
Disk type:    Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 18
Manufacturer: Plasmon Data systems Ltd.
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 45588
Speed set to 1411 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed   8.0 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write i   0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01:  613 of  613 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  92%]   8.0x.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 643602432/643602432 (314259 sectors).
Writing  time:  543.287s
Average write speed   7.7x.
Min drive buffer fill was 87%
Fixating...
Fixating time:   31.835s
wodim: fifo had 10138 puts and 10138 gets.
wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 7119 times full, min fill was 84%.

Last edited by Bes (2007-08-26 10:26:06)

mrbug

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Registered: 2007-07-17

Posts: 221

Re: CD Burning: Fails all the time?

I've had a problem like this before.

I found out that onboard "RAID" ports can't handle ATAPI devices correctly and that certain commands would confuse the drive. If that's not the problem, try changing the device name to something like /dev/sr0. That's where my burner is located in Arch these days. I believe that it has something to do with libata.

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