[Gllug] HELP - cdrecord broken!

[Tushar Joshi]

 I had exactly the dame problem with a cdwriter (yamaha) wouldn't write but
could read fine. 

Tushar

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 09:46:31AM +0000, will wrote:
> 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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