Hmm. I had a quick look down your cdrecord outputs and noticed you're using the same brand of writer as me: QSI. Check out their web site - you wont be able to unless you're running windoze! They're in Taiwan and don't apparently even bother to release drivers for their products, but just rely on the windoze stock. So, my very strong suspicion is that the problem is with the drive.
My drive is reported as "QSI DVD/CDRW SBW-081 NXC5", I googled and got little, but this <http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux/2002-Nov/0470.html> although in German (anybody read German?) it seemed to suggest the same problem with a suse distro.
Does anybody have any comments on QSI drives not blanking CDRW???
Why not start a bug, it might help confirm if the drives are junk!
And, thanks for cc'ing me in as I've got the list on 'pause' at the moment.
Regards, Morgan.
Julian Mayer wrote:
Hi All,hello
Thanks for your help.
Turns out xcdroast is burning CD-R fine, & also the "CD Creator" option of nautilus.
But, the problem is it wont blank a CD-RW, which was what I first tried to do, so was led astray.
I've tried to blank CD-RW (a number of disks - none knew) but no joy.
Here's the out put of my attempts from cdrecord, any help or pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks very much.
Regards,
M.
sorry for the late reply but i have the very same problem and am wondering if a solution turned up? if not, should i file a bugzilla report?
thanks, julian
[anna@dhcppc0 ~]$ sudo cdrecord speed=2 blank=all dev=ATA:1,0,0 -v
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: 'ATA:1,0,0'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
/usr/bin/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').
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: -1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'QSI '
Identifikation : 'DVD/CDRW SBW-161'
Revision : 'SX13'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Current: 0x000A
Profile: 0x0010
Profile: 0x0008
Profile: 0x0009
Profile: 0x000A (current)
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1605632 = 1568 KB
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 2
Reference speed: 6
Is not unrestricted
Is erasable
Disk sub type: High speed Rewritable (CAV) media (1)
ATIP start of lead in: -12900 (97:10/00)
ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
1T speed low: 4 1T speed high: 10
2T speed low: 4 2T speed high: 0 (reserved val 6)
power mult factor: 1 5
recommended erase/write power: 5
A1 values: 24 1A D8
A2 values: 26 B2 48
Disk type: unknown dye (reserved id code)
Manuf. index: -1
Manufacturer: unknown (not in table)
Manufacturer is unknown because of the orange forum embargo.
As the orange forum likes to get money for recent information,
it may be that this media does not use illegal manufacturer coding.
Speed set to 706 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4.0 in real BLANK mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Performing OPC...
Blanking entire disk
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Success. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: A1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 9600s
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------
[anna@dhcppc0 ~]$ sudo cdrecord speed=2 blank=all dev=1,0,0 -v
Password:
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: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Success. Cannot open SCSI driver.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------
[anna@dhcppc0 ~]$ sudo cdrecord speed=2 blank=all dev=ATAPI:1,0,0 -v
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:1,0,0'
devname: 'ATAPI'
scsibus: 1 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: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'QSI '
Identifikation : 'DVD/CDRW SBW-161'
Revision : 'SX13'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Current: 0x000A
Profile: 0x0010
Profile: 0x0008
Profile: 0x0009
Profile: 0x000A (current)
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1605632 = 1568 KB
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 2
Reference speed: 6
Is not unrestricted
Is erasable
Disk sub type: High speed Rewritable (CAV) media (1)
ATIP start of lead in: -12900 (97:10/00)
ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
1T speed low: 4 1T speed high: 10
2T speed low: 4 2T speed high: 0 (reserved val 6)
power mult factor: 1 5
recommended erase/write power: 5
A1 values: 24 1A D8
A2 values: 26 B2 48
Disk type: unknown dye (reserved id code)
Manuf. index: -1
Manufacturer: unknown (not in table)
Manufacturer is unknown because of the orange forum embargo.
As the orange forum likes to get money for recent information,
it may be that this media does not use illegal manufacturer coding.
Speed set to 706 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4.0 in real BLANK mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Performing OPC...
Blanking entire disk
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: A1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 9600s
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------
[anna@dhcppc0 ~]$ cdrecord -scanbus
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.
scsidev: 'ATA'
devname: 'ATA'
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').
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'QSI ' 'DVD/CDRW SBW-161' 'SX13' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
-- Morgan Read <mailto:mstuffATplDOTnet>
