I was wondering if anyone can decode the error messages below? History: I have a TEAC CD-RW a few years old that has worked OK until this evening, under Linux. It stopped working under Win98 over a year ago -- Windows blue-screens any time you draw its attention to that drive. So tonight, it is failing under Xcdroast on Linux with the messages shown below. My question is simple, for anyone who knows what these diagnostics are talking about: does it look like the CD drive has finally gone around the bend? Or does it look more like I'm working with bad media? This shows one attempt (of three) on new Memorex CD-RW disks, and one attempt on a new TDK CD-R. Any pronouncements appreciated. At this point I'm supposing that I'm in for a trip to the store, but I'm not eager to spend more money. ... ... so, I'll also be happy to hear opinions on the best *cheap* deal on a CD writer. (I'm sure someone's going to tell me to buy a DVD. CDs really do meet my requirements, so it would take a compelling price to move me to a DVD burner.) Thanks, Vic ---------- Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev= "0,0,0" fs=6144k -v -useinfo speed=1 -dao -eject -pad -data "/root/bbc-2.1.iso" ... scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 pregap1: -1 Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'TEAC ' Identifikation : 'CD-W54E ' Revision : '1.1B' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 1493520 = 1458 KB FIFO size : 6291456 = 6144 KB Track 01: data 47 MB padsize: 30 KB Total size: 54 MB (05:25.74) = 24431 sectors Lout start: 55 MB (05:27/56) = 24431 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: -11615 (97:27/10) ATIP start of lead out: 335925 (74:41/00) speed low: 0 speed high: 4 power mult factor: 4 5 recommended erase/write power: 3 A2 values: 00 00 00 Disk type: Phase change Manuf. index: 18 Manufacturer: Plasmon Data systems Ltd. Blocks total: 335925 Blocks current: 335925 Blocks remaining: 311494 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in write mode for single session. 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150 Writing pregap for track 1 at -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 01 B2 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.009s timeout 200s Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 write track data: error after 888832 bytes Writing time: 105.358s Fixating... Fixating time: 0.000s ----- Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev= "0,0,0" fs=6144k -v -useinfo speed=1 -dao -eject -pad -data "/root/bbc-2.1.iso" ... scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 pregap1: -1 Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'TEAC ' Identifikation : 'CD-W54E ' Revision : '1.1B' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 1300480 = 1270 KB FIFO size : 6291456 = 6144 KB Track 01: data 47 MB padsize: 30 KB Total size: 54 MB (05:25.74) = 24431 sectors Lout start: 55 MB (05:27/56) = 24431 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2) ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 3 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 335418 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in write mode for single session. 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150 Writing pregap for track 1 at -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 01 D1 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 04 01 00 00 Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x01 (logical unit is in process of becoming ready) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 200s Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 00 00 10 0A 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 write track data: error after 952320 bytes Writing time: 163.933s Fixating... cdrecord: 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: F0 00 03 00 00 00 10 0A 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x02 Qual 0x00 (no seek complete) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 16 (valid) cmd finished after 7.520s timeout 200s Trouble flushing the cache Fixating time: 15.276s --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss