[nflug] cdrecord woes

JJ Neff jjneff at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 2 13:33:00 EST 2005 

Have you looked at the output of a cmd line 'cdrecord dev=/dev/hd<> speed=<>
-overburn -dummy -tao file.iso'?

I was using K3B but it hated my drives and it locks up my dvd burner when it
doesn't release the drive correctly.  Also it is probably getting an error from
cdrecord it doesn't like.  

At the same time I have all these cdrecord issues I can burn DVDs with no
trouble with dvd+rw-tools and have been amassing a wealth of dvds fomr cmd line
(growisofs) and from GUI Graveman.

JJN
--- Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I don't know about all of that but ever since Mandrake 10.1, k3b just
> segfaults
> when I try to start it by stuffing a blank disk in the drive.  It will start
> up
> if there is no blank in the drive but when I go to try to burn (dummy or
> real),
> it dies instantly.  Trying to do a stack backtrace on the process just goes
> away in an infinate loop.
> 
> I'm currently running Mandrake (Mandriva) 10.2 on a Dell Inspiron 8000 with a
> MATSHITA CD-RW UJDA360.  Kernel is2.6.11-6mdk.  Anybody have any ideas?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Bob
> 
> --- vlok stone <vlokstone at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > JJ, Appearently, there was a fallout over this. 
> > http://programming.linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/09/1341236&tid=91&tid=22
> > 
> > try this, cdrecord -v -eject speed=24 dev=/dev/hdc
> > -multi whatever.file.iso
> > (or whatever /dev/hd* your cd burner is on)
> > should say can't find file. you can also use cdrecord
> > -scanbus or
> > cdrecord dev=help to scan for devices. I used to use
> > dev=ATA:1,2,0 ,but now
> > /dev/hdc works. 
> > Play around with dev=? and something should work. 
> > 
> > --- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I would happily use mkisofs and turn data I want to
> > > add to a CD into an iso
> > > first if I could reliably burn.  The way cdrecord
> > > refuses to even see media as
> > > available in the drive is very frustrating.  
> > > 
> > > I can't be the only person who is wondering why
> > > cdrecording should be so
> > > hard...  And the support from the maintainer - well
> > > when he gets done
> > > "answering" a support question you wonder where such
> > > hate came from :-)  Anyway
> > > he blames it solely on the kernel developers and
> > > tells you to use 2.4 with scsi
> > > emu Or just transfer to Solaris...
> > > 
> > > Drats
> > > 
> > > I have same trouble with 2.4, when I switch from my
> > > 2.6 my video card and my vm
> > > sessions become horked and a bunch of other apps
> > > stop behaving.
> > > 
> > > Oh well - need to find a way to make it Just Work.
> > > 
> > > JJN
> > > 
> > > --- Josh Johnson <joshj at linuxmail.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I've been having the same problem since 2.6. But I
> > > burn so few and far 
> > > > between that I just boot into my old 2.4 kernel to
> > > do it. But as of recent 
> > > > I've had other problems with 2.4 because the rest
> > > of my system has been 
> > > > moving further away from it. So its time to buckle
> > > down and figure this 
> > > > out. My understanding has been that in 2.4 you
> > > needed the SCSI emulation 
> > > > for cdrecord because it didn't use ATAPI
> > > transport. Now with 2.6 you 
> > > > don't need it. I had the scsi-emu 
> > > > drivers built as modules and I figured that simply
> > > not loading them would 
> > > > be good enough. But maybe it has to be taken out
> > > all together. I could 
> > > > very definitely 
> > > > be wrong about this, but I'm going to get around
> > > to it in the near future. 
> > > > To answer your other question: cdrdao works fine
> > > for me in 2.6. But its 
> > > > ways are so weird (you have to make a xml file for
> > > it) that I only use it 
> > > > to burn isos and vcds.
> > > > 
> > > > -Josh
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, JJ Neff wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > cdrecord has been busting my hump since 2.6
> > > kernel first reared.  I was
> > > > still
> > > > > able to burn a cd to an external 4X acer (USB)
> > > but my internal DVD burner
> > > > never
> > > > > got to burn (once- but I'm not sure what
> > > alignment the stars might have
> > > > been in
> > > > > to get that one to go)
> > > > > Well now under 2.6.12-1-686 (debian testing) I
> > > can't get anything to burn -
> > > > > cd-R media will not get recognized in either
> > > burner.  Even my trusty slow
> > > > > external keeps telling me bad /wrong media no
> > > matter what I stick in it
> > > > (get
> > > > > yer head out of the gutters!)
> > > > >
> > > > > Last night after an update/upgrade I noticed
> > > cdrecord was upgraded but t
> > > > made
> > > > > not difference.  Still no media is being
> > > recognized as valid in the burner.
> > > > > Any links about 2.6.12 or the like would be
> > > appreciated...
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > >
> > > > > Oh also any other tools besides cdrecord able to
> > > work cd burners under
> > > > Linux?
> > > > >
> > > > > I can burn dvds just fine with dvd+rw-tools ...
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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