k3b stops burning after about 1MB with aopen CDRW

Ebel · 07-12-2004, 01:44 PM

I'm having some problems with my CD burner and k3b. The CD burner is a external USB AOpen EHW-5224U (link: http://english.aopen.com.tw/Products/CDRW/ehw-5224u.htm) I was trying to copy a the Dyne:Bolic Live CD. I had difficulties burning CDs with Red Hat 9 and cdrecord, so I used Knoppix, it's always worked so far. I tried to copy the ISO image onto a blank CD using k3b. It stopped after about 1 MB and fixated the CD, thus producing a coaster. Here is the output:

Code:

System
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K3b Version: 0.10.3
KDE Version: 3.1.5
QT Version:  3.2.3

cdrecord
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scsidev: '2,0,0'
scsibus: 2 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a25 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J?rg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
      and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
      Please send bug reports and support requests to <cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
      The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 2
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info    : 'AOPEN   '
Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRW5224   '
Revision       : '1.06'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Current: 0x0009
Profile: 0x0008 
Profile: 0x0009 (current)
Profile: 0x000A 
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED 
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1359872 = 1328 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data   650 MB        
Total size:      746 MB (73:59.73) = 332980 sectors
Lout start:      747 MB (74:01/55) = 332980 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: 26866
Forcespeed is OFF.
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in real SAO mode for single 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.
BURN-Free is OFF.
Performing OPC...
Sending CUE sheet...
Writing pregap for track 1 at -150
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01:    0 of  650 MB written.
Track 01:    1 of  650 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  83%]   0.8x.
cdrecord.mmap: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 00 03 64 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 71 00 05 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 10 02 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, deferred error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x10 Qual 0x02 (id crc or ecc error) [No matching qualifier] Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
cmd finished after 8.996s timeout 200s
cdrecord.mmap: A write error occured.
cdrecord.mmap: Please properly read the error message above.
write track data: error after 1777664 bytes
Writing  time:   32.340s
Average write speed 182.1x.
Fixating...
Fixating time:    0.017s
cdrecord.mmap: fifo had 92 puts and 29 gets.
cdrecord.mmap: fifo was 0 times empty and 28 times full, min fill was 98%.

cdrecord comand:
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/usr/bin/cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=2,0,0 speed=1 -dao -eject -data /mnt/hda2/home/dynbolic.iso

A friend suggested that it could be the burner. It's only about 3 months old, but it was cheap, only €70, but i baught it new. Anyone know how to fix this?

Joey.Dale · 07-12-2004, 02:27 PM

what kernel are you using?

-Joey

Ebel · 07-12-2004, 03:14 PM

I have Red Hat 9 installed, that's kernel 2.4.20-8, the CD burner didn't work with that, even though it could work as a normal CD drive. I was able to burn under Knoppix v3.3, which has kernel 2.4.x, not sure exactly. The strange thing is that k3b used to work under Knoppix, but now doesn't. Any suggestions?

Joey.Dale · 07-12-2004, 03:28 PM

If in knoppix it once worked but stoped, it sounds like a hardware problem w/ the drive.

-Joey

Ebel · 07-12-2004, 05:28 PM

Damn. Is there anyway I can be sure that it's a hardware problem? I'll check if it's under warrenty.

Ebel · 07-18-2004, 04:20 PM

It's OK, I got it working. After advice from a friend I downloaded and compiled the latest version of cdrecord (2.00.3), and I'm able to burn stuff fine now. I've heard that RedHat 9 (and possibiliy SuSE) shipped with not great versions of cdrecord. But it works now, which is great.