Hi everyone, Ok, since it's been a while and people were forgetting what the problem is I decided to start a thread with a short summary of my problem, what's been tried, and some new info. Thanks to everyone who's replied before.
the new info: I swapped out my TDK 440n dvd burner for a sony cd-rw drive, and cdrecord works fine... so it doesn't seem like a misconfiguartion that's keeping my whole system from burning, it seems to be specific to this drive. the summary of the problem: Starting new track at sector: 0 /usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS) cmd finished after 400.202s timeout 40s /usr/bin/cdrecord: A write error occured. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above. dmesg: hdc: DMA timeout retry hdc: timeout waiting for DMA hdc: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hdc: status error: error=0x00 hdc: drive not ready for command hdc: status error: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hdc: status error: error=0x04Aborted Command cdrecord can't burn any cds, though it seems to blank cd-rw's ok. growisofs works fine for burning dvds. the drive's been tested in a windows machine, and burned cds fine, so it doesn't seem like the hardware's faulty. It was suggested that something was trying to access the drive while cdrecord was, though it still errored even with all non-essential programs killed and lsof not showing anything using the drive. Also, since the cd-rw drive works as a drop-in replacement for the dvd burner, it doesn't seem like that's the problem. If anyone has any ideas, or has a tdk 440n drive and could relate their experiences, please reply and cc me as i'm not subscribed to this list - thanks everyone, and if you want any other info please ask. -Dan gentoo kernel 2.6.7 Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a32 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) ============================ -Dan "OverrideX"- ICQ: 7171522 AIM: OverrideX Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. -- Chuang-tzu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]