Hello everyone, I downloaded the mandrake 10.0 official iso's last night and i'm trying to burn them with k3b in mandrake 10.0 community on a hp753n with a Plextor PX-708UF +-R dvd/cd burner and it won't work. Prior to this, I burned all my data (about 101 mb worth) in mandrake that I wanted to keep over to the official distro and it worked fine, even verified the data and everything was there. But when I try to burn a iso cd or data cd for each of the almost 700mb iso files, i get these errors:


Medium or burner do not support writing at 2x speed
Switching down burn speed to 0x
input/output error. not neccessarily serious
input/output error. not neccessarily serious
cdrecord returned an unknown error (Code 254)
Unknown error 254
Please send me an e-mail with the last output

Even when I try to burn at 1x speed I get the same errors with these lines also:
Probably a buffer underrun occured
Please choose a lower burning speed

That was at the lowest speed and it still didn't work. Burning in windows with Nero is flawless for me. I tried to burn the iso's as data cds so i could burn them as images in Nero on XP but K3b won't let me burn! Is there a way that I can access these iso's from winXP so I could burn them in Nero? If so, please explain. I am a newbie at linux.


Here is the debug output if it makes any sense to you.

System
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K3b Version: 0.11.6cvs
KDE Version: 3.2 BRANCH >= 20040204
QT Version: 3.2.3

cdrecord
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scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.30
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (warly-Mandrakelinux-scsi-linux-sg '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.81 04/04/18 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a28-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 <warly@mandrakesoft.com>.
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR '
Identifikation : 'DVDR PX-708A '
Revision : '1.03'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: 0x0009
Profile: 0x001B
Profile: 0x001A
Profile: 0x0014
Profile: 0x0013
Profile: 0x0011
Profile: 0x0010
Profile: 0x000A
Profile: 0x0009 (current)
Profile: 0x0008
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE VARIREC FORCESPEED SINGLESESSION HIDECDR
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1190112 = 1162 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 694 MB
Total size: 797 MB (79:03.25) = 355744 sectors
Lout start: 798 MB (79:05/19) = 355744 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 5
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
Disk sub type: Medium Type B, low Beta category (B-) (4)
ATIP start of lead in: -12369 (97:17/06)
ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
1T speed low: 4 1T speed high: 0 (reserved val 11)
2T speed low: 6 2T speed high: 0 (reserved val 13)
power mult factor: 0 0
A1 values: 2B 00 D0
A2 values: 3D B8 00
A3 values: 22 D2 80
Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 69
Manufacturer: Moser Baer India Limited
Manufacturer is guessed because of the orange forum embargo.
The orange forum likes to get money for recent information.
The information for this media may not be correct.
Single session is OFF.
Hide CDR is OFF.
Blocks total: 362099 Blocks current: 362099 Blocks remaining: 6355
Forcespeed is OFF.
Power-Rec is ON.
Power-Rec write speed: 40x (recommended)
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 40.0 in dummy SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting dummy 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 OFF.
Turning BURN-Free on
Sending CUE sheet...
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2A 00 FF FF FF 89 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.003s timeout 200s
/usr/bin/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 0A 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 200s
/usr/bin/cdrecord: A write error occured.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
Writing pregap for track 1 at -150
write track pad data: error after 63488 bytes
BFree: 1162 K BSize: 1162 K
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 0 of 694 MB written.
write track data: error after 0 bytes
Writing time: 19.565s
Average write speed 27.0x.
Fixating...
WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode.
Fixating time: 0.003s
/usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
Last selected write speed: 40x
Max media write speed: 40x
Last actual write speed: 19x
BURN-Free was 1 times used.

cdrecord comand:
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/usr/bin/cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=0,0,0 speed=40 -dao -dummy driveropts=burnfree -eject -data /home/dc/Mandrakelinux10.0-Official-Download-CD1.i586.iso

cdrecord is your friend.

do this first:

cdrecord -scanbus

you will get a response that will be 3 #s seperated by ,

for me its 0,0,0

then once you have that its extreemly simple to bunr with cdrecord read the man for more details, but i just do this line for my burner:

and hit the enter key. its that simple. sitback and wait.

http://www.socceraccess.net/tmp/k3b.jpg

please check the screenshot

I only have these buttons:

New Project, Open Save

And these toolbars:

File, Settings, Help

Any ideas?

I just downloaded Debian Linux and will like to burn the images

You may want to try installing the actual cdrecord, as you are using the cdrecord-clone. The clone gave me MANY issues in the past, all of which were fixed by removing it and installing the actual cdrecord.

Get it here...

http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/cooker...3mdk.i586.html

Hope that helps ya...

Good luckl...

I have cdrecord-2.0-6 installed (original RPM that came with RedHat)

However when I compiled my kernel, and started hdb as "ide-scsi" (trying to clone a CD), I received an error like this:

"Your version of CDRecord doesn't has clonning support"

Hope that works

As a matter of fact I have cdrecord-2.0-6.i386.rpm installed

I try downloading and installing it again, seems like it's excactly the same version

I installed cdrecord-2.0-11.9.1.i386.rpm as well, they all seem to be the same version

Do you see anything if you go to the Settings menu, then Configure K3b, and then click the Devices button? If not, try clicking the Add Device button and adding it manually. Also, you should check, in that same area, the Programs button. See what is says in the list for cdrecord. It should say the path is /usr/bin/cdrecord, but check the version as well and see if it's using the one you think it is. I say this because in the cdrecord message of the first post, you'll notice this (look at the last line)...

cdrecord
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scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.30
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (warly-Mandrakelinux-scsi-linux-sg '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.81 04/04/18 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a28-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling

So, check both of those and let us know what you get. Also, post the result of

cdrecord -scanbus

Good luck...

If ppl receive error 242, don't worry

Just select "verify data after writing"

You'll see K3B outputs the following "Calculating the written data's md5sum", and you'll see the output is the same

I am burning Debian Linux right now, and it's surely working