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[SOlVED] cdrecord headaches

UPDATE: EVERYTHINGS WORKING NOW :) , i'LL POST A SOLUTION SOON

Made a lil script ( last post), suggest improvements please

Cdrecord problem here :( , The media a fully functioning media, k3b works allright, but writing from the command line just fails :(

Output of various commands:

sudo cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc -scanbus Gives:

Code:

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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

Using libscg version 'debian-0.8debian2'.

cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (debian-0.8debian2 '@(#)scsitransp.c      1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling').

scsibus1:

    1,0,0  100) 'SAMSUNG ' 'CD-R/RW SW-252F ' 'R802' Removable CD-ROM

        1,1,0  101) *

        1,2,0  102) *

        1,3,0  103) *

        1,4,0  104) *

        1,5,0  105) *

        1,6,0  106) *

        1,7,0  107) *

cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI gives::

Code:

scsidev: 'ATAPI'

devname: 'ATAPI'

scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2

Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.

Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained.

Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow.

cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.

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cdrecord: package and read /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup .

sudo cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,0,0 ~/.zshrc gives :

Code:

cdrecord: No write mode specified.

cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.

cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.

cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...

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cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.15-26-686-nosmp

cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.

cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.

scsidev: 'ATAPI:1,0,0'

devname: 'ATAPI'

scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0

Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.

Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained.

Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow.

cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.

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cdrecord: package and read /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup

This and other writeing commands give the impression that all went well i.e there are no error messages,

But when I try to mount the disk I get:

Code:

sudo cdrecord dmount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,

      missing codepage or other error

      In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

      dmesg | tail  or so

Subsequently blanking the disk and writing with the help of k3b, everything works just perfect.

Please help, I really want to burn from the commandline. Is tehre anyway to know the exact commands used by k3b ?? Or is there any alternatives to cdrecord??
Using kubuntu here..

Quote:

cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,0,0 ~/.zshrc

This does not create a filesystem. To build a filesystem use mkisofs. Then you can burn via cdrecord.

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl8_mkisofs.htm
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO...WTO.html#ss3.1

IT works!!
Can't believe of all the threads I searched no one mentioned this before.
Thanks a lot michaelk, I was struggliing with this for days.

one more questoin, how to do multisession recordings.
I tried

1. - create initial image: sudo mkisofs -r -o z_image ~/script
2. Writingsudo cdrecord -multi dev=/dev/hdc z_image

This worked great!

Then I created another image to write again,

1. s mkisofs -r -o 2nd_image ~/folder
writing..
2. sudo cdrecord -multi dev=/dev/hdc 2nd_image

NO error were there, but the 2nd write didn't work. Or atleast there weren't any files from the 2nd image burned.

Ok I got clear instructions for burning muti-session from
http://www.togaware.com/linux/surviv...i_Session.html

It seems to work as well.
On the second write I get a "wrinting Track 02 " message.
No errors, but then again I can't 'find' it on the cd i.e only the files from from the first mount are listed.
I have mounted, ejected the cd btw.

Now what?? me is pretty clueless again

Here it is my own humble lil script:

Though I can't figure out how to give multiple arguments to it.. $* or $@ or somethign else in place of $2. Suggest please.

Code:

###### Purpose of script to take the arguments and write them to a cd in multisession thing cleanly and without fuss.



##

#  U S A G E !!! - SCRIPTNAME FOLOWED BY IMAGE NAME, FOLLOWED BY FILE/FILES

##

echo "tocd $1(imagename) $2(file to be uploaded)"



# To check for next track

NEXTTRACK=`cdrecord -msinfo dev=ATA:1,0,0`





# if command is to check for blank cd in a very indirect way

if [ $NEXTTRACK ]

then

echo continuing multisession..



# making image - $1 is the name of

NEXTTRACK=`cdrecord -msinfo dev=ATA:1,0,0` &&  mkisofs -r -o $1  -C $NEXTTRACK -M /dev/cdrom $2



cdrecord  gracetime=2 -v -tao -multi  dev=/dev/hdc -data $1



rm $1

echo removing image...



else

echo startin cd..



mkisofs -r -o $1 $2

cdrecord  gracetime=2 -v -tao -multi  dev=/dev/hdc -data $1



#removing image

rm $1



fi