[newbie] Burning frustration

[gikoreno]

Hi everyone,

I hope you had a nice weekend.
I've been trying to burn ISO images on my burner. It's the first time I try this on Linux, and so far it's been quite the disaster... The command I am using is the following:

cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 driveropts=burnfree dev=1,2,0 /tmp/s.iso

I started with speed 16, because on windows I could run it at speed 16 or above without much trouble... but then I thought I might have been getting buffer underruns... so I tried speed=4.

The output "error" is the following:
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Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '1,2,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 2 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.6'
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR '
Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W4012A'
Revision : '1.02'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE VARIREC
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 639 MB
Total size: 734 MB (72:48.88) = 327666 sectors
Lout start: 735 MB (72:50/66) = 327666 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 6
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
Disk sub type: Medium Type C, low Beta category (C-) (6)
ATIP start of lead in: -11231 (97:32/19)
ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 27
Manufacturer: Prodisc Technology Inc.
Trying to clear drive status.
cdrecord: Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper status.
Blocks total: 1166730 Blocks current: 1166730 Blocks remaining: 839064
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
BURN-Free is OFF.
Turning BURN-Free on
Performing OPC...
cdrecord: Input/output error. read track info: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 52 01 00 00 00 FF 00 00 1C 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 240s
Writing time: 0.010s
Fixating...
cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 27 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x27 Qual 0x00 (write protected) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s
Fixating time: 0.001s
Average write speed 999.0x.
cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
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I don't understand what the problem is. I tried to trouble-shoot a bit with different options, but all I am getting is coasters.

Thanks for the help in advance,

gikoreno

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