On Apr 4, 2005 2:46 AM, Brian Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I burn a CD. Any CD. I like to make sure it burns well, so I have > k3b check the disk and it gets about 70% of the way through and hangs > for a few minutes. Then it errors out that the verification could not > complete. [...] > Apr 4 02:30:31 alfred kernel: sr0: Current: sense key: Medium Error > Apr 4 02:30:31 alfred kernel: Additional sense: Unrecovered read error
Well, "Medium error" indicates a problem with the medium, i.e., a problem with the actual disc. You'll notice that it comes from the "sr" (SCSI CD-ROM) device driver. That is not used for writing CDs -- only for reading them. The "sg" (SCSI generic) driver is used for writing to discs. So this is not a problem with the write process itself. Something I've had trouble with in the past are the various "auto mount on media load" gadgets. That is, daemons that poll devices to see if media has been inserted, and automatically mount it if so. The intent is to make it so that users don't have to manually mount media; they just stick the disc in and it magically appears on their GUI desktop. The problem occurs when these gadgets poll a drive which is half-way through writing a new CD. That obviously isn't going to work, and causes the drive itself to get all confused, which causes the whole thing to puke. I solve this problem by killing off and disabling all those auto-magic mount gadgets. I don't like them anyway, cause I'm an old-school control freak and like to mount my media manually, the way man was intended to. There's probably a more sophisticated solution, but this worked for me. YMMV. HTH. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss