Okay, now that it looks that it is writing CDs, I went to burn the first iso image of fc3. Here is what I received using cdrecord: cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 FC3-i386-disc1.iso cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent default s. cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... 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 versio n. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority(). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. scsidev: '/dev/cdrom' devname: '/dev/cdrom' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). Driveropts: 'burnfree' SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'HL-DT-ST' Identifikation : 'DVDRAM GSA-4160B' Revision : 'A300' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Current: 0x0009 Profile: 0x0012 Profile: 0x0011 Profile: 0x0014 Profile: 0x0013 Profile: 0x001A Profile: 0x001B Profile: 0x002B Profile: 0x0010 Profile: 0x0009 (current) Profile: 0x000A Profile: 0x0008 Profile: 0x0002 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 Drive buf size : 1053696 = 1029 KB cdrecord: Success. read buffer: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 3C 00 00 00 00 00 00 FC 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 04 00 00 00 00 10 87 69 65 80 08 03 00 00 Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x08 Qual 0x03 (logical unit communication crc error (ultra-dma/32)) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) resid: 64512 cmd finished after 0.004s timeout 40s FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 617 MB Total size: 708 MB (70:12.18) = 315914 sectors Lout start: 708 MB (70:14/14) = 315914 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, high Beta category (A+) (3) ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66) ATIP start of lead out: 359846 (79:59/71) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 3 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation Blocks total: 359846 Blocks current: 359846 Blocks remaining: 43932 cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority(). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. Speed set to 706 KB/s Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4.0 in real TAO 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. trackno=0 BURN-Free is ON. Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 3 of 617 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 4.2x.cdrecord: Succes s. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 07 25 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 04 00 00 00 00 10 77 22 FA 80 08 03 00 00 Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x08 Qual 0x03 (logical unit communication crc error (ultra-dma/32)) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) resid: 63488 cmd finished after 0.101s timeout 40s write track data: error after 3745792 bytes cdrecord: A write error occured. cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above. Writing time: 17.565s Average write speed 240.4x. Min drive buffer fill was 99% Fixating... Fixating time: 63.191s cdrecord: fifo had 123 puts and 60 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 47 times full, min fill was 79%. It seems to burn small files with no problem, but when I use large files, I get the same message. I have tried searching through the archives, but I couldn't find issue similar to mine. Any suggestions? Thanks! Chris On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 09:43, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 01:22 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Am Sa, den 04.12.2004 schrieb Christian Del Pino um 23:25: > > > What I typed in that made it work was cdrecord dev=cdrom, as in my > > > cdrecord.conf file. Now my question, is my conf file wrong, or do I need > > > to reconfigure that cd burning apps with the correct device name? > > > > "cdrecord dev=cdrom" is wrong IMHO. The proper syntax is > > > > cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc ... > > > > or if you did set your burning device in the cdrecord.conf, you then > > don't need to pass cdrecord any information about the device to use. > > Nothing wrong with dev=cdrom (if cdrom is a named device is > cdrecord.conf), but it's usually redundant when there's only one cd > writing device specified in cdrecord.conf. However, if there are > multiple cd writing devices specified, dev=cdrom would be necessary in > order to specify device "cdrom" rather than say "dvdwriter". > > Paul. > -- > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>