Hi this is very very frustrating. If I'm in windows and I run nero I can fill a CD up all the way w/ tracks... using atleast 95% of the CD up. In linux, I've tried various front ends all which use cdrecord and I can sometimes get 5 tracks recorded before it stops and says that there was no error... I don't understand but I'm very frustated about it and can't seem to get any help. I've googled, if read message boards, I've tried burning it at the slowest speed nothing helps, it's at the point now where I barely get past the 1st track and i get some weird print out. Here is what I got when I used GnomeToast 1.0Beta6.

cdrecord: input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2a 00 00 0c 21 00 1b 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 ...
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 2.860s timeout 40s
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 ... ... ...

I really don't like to use windows but to be honest it seems to be the only thing that works as designed on my computer... can any body offer any ideas???

thanks

How much system RAM do you have? RAM plays a huge part in CD/DVD writing. These error messages look like memory trouble.

Is your CD writer attached by SCSI?

Hi,
does it give you any problems if you start as root and burn it from a command line?
(Check if your user has access to burn)

Also give K3b a try, it's just like Nero..

I have 768MB of DDR (3100 I believe), I'm running a Celeron 2.6Ghz (yuck!). My CDRW is an IDE device it's a Lite-On 52x32x52.


If I try writing as a regular user I do get a warning that I don't see when I'm root. Even when I am root though I still get the same problem during the burning process. Here is the error I see if I am logged in as a regular user:

[fatherg@localhost temp]$ cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -audio -pad 01_songNeedsAName.wav
Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg Schilling
cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2).
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority().
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.

I also notice a warning at the beginning of the burn that always occurs wheather or not I am root, it says:

cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red
Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.75-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.75 02/10/21 Copyright
1997 J. Schilling').

I think this message has to do w/ me using an IDE device instead of an actual SCSI, but I'm not linux savvy enough to be sure.

I have also noticed that when I do a dummy burn, there are no errors whatsoever.