I picked up a new burner to replace my HP8220e that died. I started writing CD-RW's with K3b just fine but when I try a CD-R it stops, even if I try the -dummy option. I tried cdrecord from a shell and get the same thing. I know the Aopen isn't listed on the cdrecord supported device list so am I out of luck, need to buy a different drive? I'm thinking since it will successfully write a cdrw it should work. Heres the errors I get.

Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 3
Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
Trying to clear drive status.
Forcespeed is OFF.
cdrecord: Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper status.
Forcespeed is OFF.
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting dummy write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
BURN-Free is OFF.
Sending CUE sheet...
cdrecord: Input/output error. read track info: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 52 01 00 00 00 FF 00 00 1C 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.007s timeout 240s
cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150
Writing pregap for track 2 at -150
cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2A 00 FF FF FF 6A 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 64 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x64 Qual 0x00 (illegal mode for this track) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.065s timeout 200s
write track pad data: error after 0 bytes
BFree: 0 K BSize: 1525 K
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 02: 0 of 641 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 64 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x64 Qual 0x00 (illegal mode for this track) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.043s timeout 200s

write track data: error after 0 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Writing time: 5.241s
Average write speed 855.3x.
Fixating...
WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode.
Fixating time: 0.007s
cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.

"Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy SAO mode for single session."

There is an optimal speed to write a CD-R or CD-RW. That is why you have to match the CD media speed with the drive speed within certain ranges. It is possible that a speed of 4 is too slow to work. If your recording media has a maximum speed of 4 and your new drive has a maximum speed of between 48 and 52 it is unlikely that your new drive will ever burn that blank CD.

Also if your media has a recording speed of 48, your drive has a recording speed of 48, and you set the cdrecord speed to 4, it is highly unlikely to work.

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Steve Stites

ahh, I tried a couple different brands of media but they don't have any speed listed on them. My laptop is limited to 4x due to it being USB 1.1. So do I have to look for 4x max media then?

"My laptop is limited to 4x due to it being USB 1.1."

See if you can find one of the old CD-Rs which were rated 4x and try that. That should work provided that your new drive is capable of burning that slow.

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Steve Stites

Oops I must have been editing my post as you were replying. Why then would this same media have worked in my old 4x burner?

"Why then would this same media have worked in my old 4x burner?"

It is possible that the media will work at 4x, the old burner worked at 4x, and the new burner will not work at any speed, say, less than 16x.

It is also possible that speed mismatches are not the problem at all. But you won't know whether that is true or not until you get a handle on the max and min speeds of both your media and your burner.

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Steve Stites

Strange. I did test the drive on my wife's Windos box tonight, its usb 2.0 and it worked fine so I've eliminated failed hardware. I'll hunt to tomorrow at some stores for some 4x media. I assume is the media says something like 1x-16x or a range I should be safe. Man I need like a noob again, i've been lazy and haven't kept up with the technology.