On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 03:22, Thornton wrote: > > Wow! This is turning into a looooong thread! So let's see I went back > > into the beginning of the thread and reread everything. Here is the > > sum: > yes this has unfortunately. > > > You have an internal CDRW (AOPEN CD-RW CRW5232 1.03 20031013) > > that is recognized by the kernel (that is good news) that when you > > mount valid CDs on it they mount no problem (since in earlier posts > > you fixed the little typo in your /etc/fstab). > i did fix that type but i thaught i posted that it still didnt fix the > problem doing a regular mount. I cant use konqoreor or just do a mount > without the full screen mount of mount udf iso9660, etc. > > > > The only problem is that when you try to burn things with 'cdrecord' > > you can't get exclusive access on the drive even though you are using > > k3b or cdrecord as root. > > > > cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI > > > > recognizes your CDRW correctly but still you can't get exclusive access on it. > > > > So the only thing that I have in mind is try to remove your CF Card > > Reader and then run > > > > /sbin/lsmod > i removed the cf card and even rebooted to make sure those modules were > out of the system. > /sbin/lsmod > Module Size Used by > udf 79429 0 > vfat 12481 0 > fat 39393 1 vfat Why are udf and vfat loading at boot? Are you using a CD_RW disk regularly? or is this related to the use of vmware? > snd_mixer_oss 18048 0 > snd_intel8x0 35404 1 > snd_ac97_codec 63952 1 snd_intel8x0 > snd_pcm 88584 1 snd_intel8x0 > snd_timer 29188 1 snd_pcm > snd_page_alloc 9736 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm > gameport 4033 1 snd_intel8x0 > snd_mpu401_uart 9216 1 snd_intel8x0 > snd_rawmidi 25636 1 snd_mpu401_uart > snd_seq_device 8200 1 snd_rawmidi > snd 51172 10 > snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device > soundcore 7713 1 snd > vmnet 28688 12 > vmmon 45088 0 Are you running linux under vmware? or using vmware to run other virtual machines. I would suggest that you minimize the factors we are dealing with here. > parport_pc 21249 1 > lp 9133 0 > parport 35977 2 parport_pc,lp > autofs4 20677 0 > sunrpc 141861 1 > forcedeth 15937 0 > floppy 54001 0 > sg 28513 0 > scsi_mod 105360 1 sg > dm_mod 47317 0 > ohci_hcd 19793 0 > ehci_hcd 27973 0 > button 4825 0 > battery 7117 0 > asus_acpi 9177 0 > ac 3533 0 > ext3 96937 3 > jbd 66521 1 ext3 > > > > > and post the results. Afterwards try to put an empty or CDRW cd in > > your CD drive and give something like say > > > > cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -dao -data <some file here> > > > > and see what happens. Does it work now? > > it didnt work. this is the output i got. > > cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -dao -data > /home/obsidian/kde/linspire-full-4.5.499.iso > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-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 > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla > Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in > this version. > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM > scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,0' > devname: 'ATAPI' > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 > Use of ATA is preferred over ATAPI. > Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. > Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be > unmaintained. > Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. > Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. > SCSI buffer size: 64512 > atapi: 1 > Device type : Removable CD-ROM > Version : 0 > Response Format: 1 > Vendor_info : 'AOPEN ' > Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRW5232 ' > Revision : '1.03' > Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. > Current: 0x0008 > Profile: 0x0008 (current) > Profile: 0x0009 > Profile: 0x000A > Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). > Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED > Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R > Drive buf size : 1359872 = 1328 KB > FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB > Track 01: data 545 MB > Total size: 626 MB (62:02.37) = 279178 sectors > Lout start: 626 MB (62:04/28) = 279178 sectors > Current Secsize: 2048 > ATIP info from disk: > Indicated writing power: 6 > Is not unrestricted > Is not erasable > Disk sub type: Medium Type C, low Beta category (C-) (6) > ATIP start of lead in: -11231 (97:32/19) > ATIP start of lead out: 359846 (79:59/71) > Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) > Manuf. index: 27 > Manufacturer: Prodisc Technology Inc. > Trying to clear drive status. > Forcespeed is OFF. > cdrecord: Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper status. > cdrecord: Cannot get next writable address for 'invisible' track. > cdrecord: This means that we are checking recorded media. > cdrecord: This media cannot be written in streaming mode anymore. > cdrecord: If you like to write to 'preformatted' RW media, try to blank > the media first. This tells me the disk you are using is NOT a blank CDR disk. You cannot use CDR and CD-RW disks interchangeably. > Forcespeed is OFF. > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 52.0 in real SAO mode for single > session. > Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts. > Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. > BURN-Free is ON. > Turning BURN-Free off > Performing OPC... > cdrecord: Input/output error. send opc: scsi sendcmd: no error > CDB: 54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 64 C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 > Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 > Sense Code: 0x64 Qual 0xC0 (illegal mode for this track) [No matching > qualifier] Fru 0x0 > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) > cmd finished after 11.030s timeout 200s > cdrecord: OPC failed. > Writing time: 11.062s > cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets. > cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. > This appears related to the media you are using. > >