I'musing Mandriva 2006, before that i had the past version of mandrake. anyways i was able to use the cd burner, but after i installed the new version i was able to burn a cd only once and after that i haven't been able to burn anything here is the debuggin output when the burning dialog appears it says that it doesn't support writing in 52x so it does at 4x , but my cd burner is supposed to burn at 52x , when i try to modify the settings it doesn't work , is this a driver thing or something ? how can i solve this , i need to record a cd for a school project urgently

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System
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K3b Version: 0.12

KDE Version: 3.4.2
QT Version: 3.3.4
Kernel: 2.6.12-12mdk
Devices
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OPTORITE CD-RW CW5201 210E (/dev/hdc, ) at /mnt/cdrom [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM] [CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96P; SAO/R96R; RAW/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R; Restricted Overwrite]

K3b
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Size of filesystem calculated: 205

Used versions
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mkisofs: 2.1.1a03
cdrecord: 2.1.1a03

cdrecord
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/usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2).
/usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority().
/usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
scsidev: '/dev/hdc'
devname: '/dev/hdc'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2005 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 warly at mandriva.com.
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
TOC Type: 3 = CD-ROM XA mode 2
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'OPTORITE'
Identifikation : 'CD-RW CW5201 '
Revision : '210E'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Current: 0x000A
Profile: 0x0008
Profile: 0x0009
Profile: 0x000A (current)
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 : 1658880 = 1620 KB
Drive DMA Speed: 22169 kB/s 125x CD 16x DVD
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority().
/usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
Track 01: data 0 MB padsize: 190 KB
Total size: 0 MB (00:04.02) = 302 sectors
Lout start: 1 MB (00:06/02) = 302 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: 359848 (79:59/73)
Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 3
Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
Blocks total: 359848 Blocks current: 359848 Blocks remaining: 359546
Speed set to 704 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4.0 in real TAO mode for multi session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 2 seconds.
1 seconds.
0 seconds.
Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
trackno=0
BURN-Free is ON.
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 0 of 0 MB written.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Success. 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 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 73 03 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
resid: 63488
cmd finished after 0.050s timeout 40s
/usr/bin/cdrecord: A write error occured.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
write track data: error after 0 bytes
Writing time: 5.124s
Average write speed 0.8x.
Fixating...
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Success. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 72 04 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x72 Qual 0x04 (empty or partially written reserved track) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 480s
cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 480s
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot fixate disk.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 7 puts and 1 gets.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
Fixating time: 0.007s

cdrecord command:
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/usr/bin/cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/hdc speed=52 -tao driveropts=burnfree -multi -xa -tsize=205s -

mkisofs
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205
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 284
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 0
205 extents written (0 MB)

mkisofs command:
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/usr/bin/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -volid K3b data project -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2005 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher -preparer -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /home/admin/tmp/kde-admin/k3biSr3Ib.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list /home/admin/tmp/kde-admin/k3bZBme1a.tmp -joliet -hide-joliet-list /home/admin/tmp/kde-admin/k3bf7yDUb.tmp -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 2 -path-list /home/admin/tmp/kde-admin/k3b63uN8b.tmp

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ok ok sorry , i didn't mean to annoy anyone, but i am soo worried cause i need to turn my project on thursday.

thanks for replying

Use the k3b setup wizard to make sure that cdrecord is setuid and running as root permissions. Also, have you tried different types of media?

Try using Knoppix in your CD-ROM to burn the CD (given, as said, you have 2 drives and enough Ram). Don't do anything on the machine while Knoppix is burning! Maybe try other media also. Some burners are tricky.

You should also try K3b Setup, might help (but if I remember correctly, K3b should complain about permission problems).

Finally, what is the error message? I don't get where the problem lies? Does it do try to burn something? How many different CD's have you tried (as said, might be problem with drive not likeing your CD media brand). Have you updated firmware lately, or changed drive? It seems CD has be written at 4x speed, what media did you use?

thanks for replying, i have tried the k3b set up , but it is correct as far as im concerned , it is recognizing the CD BURNER, about the cd's i have given that a thought , but it's not like they are cheap cd's they are optimum 52x. i have use 'em before.

here is the message i get

Starting writing TAO 4x
Enabled BurnFree
Starting Writing
Unable to fixate disk
a write error ocurred

Ever treid writing slower? Like 24x? Shouldn't be much slower anyway, since 52x isn't the speed used throughout the whole cd, but just a maximum speed.

How much data are you trying to put on the CD? I've read somewhere this might be the problem.

The demo version should work 30 days. If it fails again, there is probably something wrong with the burner/media.
http://www.nero.com/en/nerolinux-prog.html

If it succeeds on the other side, try updating K3b and cdrecord to the latest versions. Also, I'm not sure if the burners are still supposed to be emulated as SCSI. Your burner seems to be handled that way.

Hi again

I just locked at the log file again and found some things quite strange. How much data are you trying to put on that CD? Is it an empty CD? Also try other media, you could try to borrow a CD-RW or maybe exchange some of your CD against others of other brand.

Please try Nero, if it works it will show us that the hardware works OK. Yes, I know, it worked before, but how can you be sure that it still works NOW!

Concerning the SCSI thing: this seems normal and you are running the same cdrecord as me. So the problem probably is not here.

I'll try Nero , the cd i'm trying to burn is like 600 mb , but i don't think that matters because i have tried with single files and stuff like that but the result it's the same,