I have been trying to burn audio CDs on my DVD/CDRW burner and haven't been having much luck. I tried with both the original kernel and cdrecord tools that came with core 2 and with the updated versions in testing (kernel-2.6.6.1.422 and a27 cdrecord packages). I can read from the drive OK, but writing hangs before actually writing anything. I tried using both cdroast and k3b to manage cdrecord. I searched on google for a while and some people claim to have used this drive on linux. They were using ide-scsi, but from what I have read that isn't needed on 2.6 kernels. I have flashed the firmware to revision 1.0a. (That isn't the very latest, but 1.0b's installer only runs in windows, not DOS, so I don't have a convenient way to upgrade further.) The problem also happened with the original 1.05 firmware. I am not sure if I am looking at a kernel problem, a cdrecord problem, a drive problem or a configuration problem (e.g. using ide-scsi). This is the log saved by cdroast during my latest burn attempt: Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev= "ATAPI:1,1,0" gracetime=2 fs=4096k driveropts=burnfree -v -useinfo speed=4 -dao -eject -pad -audio "/tmp/.CD/track-01.wav" ... scsidev: 'ATAPI:1,1,0' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: 1 target: 1 lun: 0 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related libscg interface code is in pre alpha. Warning: There may be fatal problems. SCSI buffer size: 64512 Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to <warly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. Driveropts: 'burnfree' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : '_NEC ' Identifikation : 'DVD_RW ND-1300A ' Revision : '1.0A' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Current: 0x000A Profile: 0x001B Profile: 0x001A Profile: 0x0014 Profile: 0x0013 Profile: 0x0011 Profile: 0x0010 Profile: 0x000A (current) Profile: 0x0009 Profile: 0x0008 (current) 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/R96R Drive buf size : 1345536 = 1314 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB pregap1: -1 Track 01: audio 39 MB (03:55.02) no preemp Track 02: audio 29 MB (02:55.04) no preemp Track 03: audio 35 MB (03:32.96) no preemp Track 04: audio 40 MB (04:00.64) no preemp Track 05: audio 28 MB (02:48.13) no preemp Track 06: audio 32 MB (03:14.06) no preemp Track 07: audio 36 MB (03:34.33) no preemp Track 08: audio 42 MB (04:14.93) no preemp Track 09: audio 31 MB (03:05.42) no preemp Track 10: audio 38 MB (03:49.10) no preemp Track 11: audio 20 MB (02:03.00) no preemp Track 12: audio 43 MB (04:20.26) no preemp Track 13: audio 60 MB (05:57.40) no preemp Track 14: audio 46 MB (04:33.93) no preemp Track 15: audio 27 MB (02:42.73) no preemp Track 16: audio 50 MB (05:02.20) no preemp Track 17: audio 74 MB (07:20.80) no preemp Track 18: audio 43 MB (04:17.76) no preemp Total size: 721 MB (71:27.76) = 321582 sectors Lout start: 721 MB (71:29/57) = 321582 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Reference speed: 2 Is not unrestricted Is erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11635 (97:26/65) ATIP start of lead out: 337350 (75:00/00) 1T speed low: 0 (reserved val 0) 1T speed high: 4 2T speed low: 8 2T speed high: 0 (reserved val 10) power mult factor: 4 6 recommended erase/write power: 3 A1 values: 02 4C B0 A2 values: 4A C8 06 Disk type: Phase change Manuf. index: 3 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation Blocks total: 337350 Blocks current: 337350 Blocks remaining: 15768 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4.0 in real SAO mode for single session. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. trackno=0 BURN-Free is ON. Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150 cdrecord: faio_wait_on_buffer for writer timed out.
