I am trying to burn fedora core 5 disks using a fedora core4 system(1.8 ghz). So far I have made two good disks and 10 coasters. I started out using nautilus. The first and fourth disks were good, the second and third bad. All subsequent tries were bad. I have checked the SHA1SUM on disk 2, which is mostly what I have been trying to burn and is making all the coasters. On the last try, I used the following command from a terminal window:
cdrecord -v -tao -data speed=8 dev=/dev/hdc /home/live2/torr/bordeaux-binary-i386/FC-5-i386-disc2.iso
It gave the following output:
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '/dev/hdc'
devname: '/dev/hdc'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'TSSTcorp'
Identifikation : 'CDW/DVD TS-H492A'
Revision : 'HP03'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Current: 0x0009
Profile: 0x000A
Profile: 0x0009 (current)
Profile: 0x0008
Profile: 0x0010
Profile: 0x002B
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1957120 = 1911 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 668 MB
Total size: 767 MB (76:01.34) = 342101 sectors
Lout start: 767 MB (76:03/26) = 342101 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 5
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
Disk sub type: Medium Type A, high Beta category (A+) (3)
ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66)
ATIP start of lead out: 359846 (79:59/71)
Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 3
Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
Blocks total: 359846 Blocks current: 359846 Blocks remaining: 17745
Speed set to 1411 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8.0 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
trackno=0
BURN-Free is OFF.
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 668 of 668 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 8.4x.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 700618752/700618752 (342099 sectors).
Writing time: 577.462s
Average write speed 8.0x.
Min drive buffer fill was 100%
Fixating...
Fixating time: 33.022s
cdrecord: fifo had 11036 puts and 11036 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 10950 times full, min fill was 84%.
All I can think of to try now is buying a new cdrom drive. Is there anything else I can try first?
Thanks,
Mark
