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siaco

Member

Registered: 2009-01-20

Posts: 21

Problems burning CDs on Dell Studio XPS 16

Hi,

I have a Dell Studio XPS 16 with Arch 64bit and a DVD/Blueray compo player which I can't successfully burn ISO files on. When I try to burn via wodim I get the following result:
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 1529856/1529856 (747 sectors).
Errno: 5 (Input/output error), flush cache scsi sendcmd: no error
[...]
Trouble flushing the cache
wodim: Cannot fixate disk.

Has anyone encountered anything like this? I would be glad if anyone can give a helping hand here :-)

Some pastes from ouputs which might be usefull:
Full paste of the output from wodim:

$ wodim diskimg.iso 
wodim: No write mode specified.
wodim: Asuming -tao mode.
wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults.
wodim: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits.Device was not specified. Trying to find an appropriate drive...
Looking for a CD-R drive to store 1.46 MiB...
Detected CD-R drive: /dev/cdrw
Using /dev/cdrom of unknown capabilities
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : 
Vendor_info    : 'HL-DT-ST'
Identification : 'DVDRWBD CA10N   '
Revision       : 'A107'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
Speed set to 5540 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed   4.0 in real unknown mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in    0 seconds. Operation starts.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 1529856/1529856 (747 sectors).
Errno: 5 (Input/output error), flush cache scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 72 0B 00 00 00 00 00 0E 09 0C 00 00 00 03 00 00
Sense Key: 0x0 No Additional Sense, Segment 11
Sense Code: 0x00 Qual 0x03 (setmark detected) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
cmd finished after 121.274s timeout 120s
Trouble flushing the cache
wodim: Cannot fixate disk.

I don't know if this is any usefull information, but here is the output of wodim -checkdrive:

$ wodim -checkdrive
Device was not specified. Trying to find an appropriate drive...
Detected CD-R drive: /dev/cdrw
Using /dev/cdrom of unknown capabilities
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : 
Vendor_info    : 'HL-DT-ST'
Identification : 'DVDRWBD CA10N   '
Revision       : 'A107'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
wodim: Cannot load media with this drive!
wodim: Try to load media by hand.
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

Here is what hal-device gives me about it:

10: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVDRWBD_CA10N'
  info.interfaces = { 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage', 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage', 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable' } (string list)
  block.device = '/dev/sr0'  (string)
  block.major = 11  (0xb)  (int)
  block.minor = 0  (0x0)  (int)
  block.is_volume = false  (bool)
  storage.bus = 'pci'  (string)
  storage.no_partitions_hint = true  (bool)
  storage.media_check_enabled = true  (bool)
  storage.automount_enabled_hint = true  (bool)
  storage.drive_type = 'cdrom'  (string)
  storage.model = 'DVDRWBD CA10N'  (string)
  storage.vendor = 'HL-DT-ST'  (string)
  storage.firmware_version = 'A107'  (string)
  storage.lun = 0  (0x0)  (int)
  storage.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer'  (string)
  storage.removable.media_available = false  (bool)
  storage.removable = true  (bool)
  storage.size = 0  (0x0)  (uint64)
  storage.hotpluggable = false  (bool)
  storage.requires_eject = true  (bool)
  storage.removable.support_async_notification = false  (bool)
  info.category = 'storage'  (string)
  info.capabilities = { 'storage', 'block', 'storage.cdrom', 'access_control' } (string list)
  info.addons = { 'hald-addon-storage' } (string list)
  storage.removable.media_size = 0  (0x0)  (uint64)
  storage.partitioning_scheme = ''  (string)
  block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVDRWBD_CA10N'  (string)
  info.product = 'DVDRWBD CA10N'  (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVDRWBD_CA10N'  (string)
  storage.cdrom.cdr = true  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.cdrw = true  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.dvd = true  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.dvdr = true  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.dvdrw = true  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.dvdrdl = true  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.dvdram = true  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.dvdplusr = true  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.dvdplusrw = true  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.dvdplusrwdl = false  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.dvdplusrdl = true  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.bd = true  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.bdr = false  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.bdre = false  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.hddvd = false  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.hddvdr = false  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.hddvdrw = false  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.mo = false  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.mrw = true  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.mrw_w = true  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.support_media_changed = true  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.support_multisession = true  (bool)
  storage.cdrom.read_speed = 4234  (0x108a)  (int)
  storage.cdrom.write_speed = 4234  (0x108a)  (int)
  info.callouts.add = { 'hal-acl-tool --add-device' } (string list)
  storage.cdrom.write_speeds = { '4234', '2822', '1764', '706' } (string list)
  org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_names = { 'Eject', 'CloseTray' } (string list)
  org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_signatures = { 'as', 'as' } (string list)
  info.callouts.remove = { 'hal-acl-tool --remove-device' } (string list)
  access_control.file = '/dev/sr0'  (string)
  access_control.type = 'cdrom'  (string)
  org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_execpaths = { 'hal-storage-eject', 'hal-storage-closetray' } (string list)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0'  (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2929_scsi_host_0_scsi_device_lun0'  (string)
  info.vendor = 'HL-DT-ST'  (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 3  (0x3)  (int)
  org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_argnames = { 'extra_options', 'extra_options' } (string list)

Last edited by siaco (2009-05-22 17:47:52)

litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: Problems burning CDs on Dell Studio XPS 16

maybe this is of help?

[SOLVED]Why can't I burn cd/dvd discs?

p.s., wodim/cdrkit is known to be a bit less stable than cdrtools where it was forked from. if the above topic doesn't help you further, you can try installing cdrtools instead (it's in the AUR).

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