[Gllug] HELP - cdrecord broken!

[will]

Colin Murphy wrote:
> I've done something to break cdrecord, it now craps out with a, 
> Input/output error, as shown:-
> 
> # cdrecord -v -dummy dev=0,0,0 speed=0 
> /tmp/MandrakeLinux-8.2beta4-CD1.i586.iso
> 
> returns
> 
> 	Track 01:  47 of 650 MB written (fifo 100%).cdrecord: Input/output error. 
> 	write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
> 	CDB:  2A 00 00 00 5F 2E 00 00 1F 00
> 	status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS)
> 	cmd finished after 8.223s timeout 40s
> 
> The point at which it breaks seams to be random, got as high 252MB and has 
> been as low as 6MB.
> 
> 
> cdrecord has been working on this machine.  I have recently been playing 
> with the usb mass-storage device.
> 
> Any ideas as to how I've broken cdrecord and how I go about repairing it.  
> I have already reinstalled the cdrecord package.  
> 
> This is on Man8.1 and the writer is a SCSI.

It *could* be a broken cdwriter.  I had a problem a couple of years ago 
with a SCSI CDwriter (toshiba I think) that would cause the disks to 
sometimes not complete seemingly at random places.  A CD would sometimes 
write fully and sometimes get only a couple of hundred meg in as you 
described.  Don't know what the problem was, got a replacement.  It 
still seemed to read CD's OK though IIRC.

Will.

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