On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:28, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> On Saturday 20 September 2003 01:39 am, Sharrea Day wrote:
> > Well I'm real glad to hear I'm not the only one. I had 7 coasters and
> > thought it had something to do with that error when trying to copy a
> > music CD.
> >
> > So can someone please tell me if there is such a thing as "DATA ONLY"
> > CDRs? Just thought perhaps that's the reason for the coasters...?
>
> You want to make sure that you are either using some good generic scsi
> drivers in the burning program or that you have correctly identified the
> drive type. Small differences can result in major problems.
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24, Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
How do I know if this is a good driver? I've included the output from one
session as an attachment.
> Also, if you are trying to burn at max speed and get coasters, you may
> want to try specifying a reduced speed for burning. Most CD Burners try
> to read the available speed off the media but the media is not always
> accurate, I routinely get CD's that report a capable speed of 24x but end
> up coasters if I try to burn that fast, I have to drop it to 16x for
> those.
I always specify the speed - 8x for CDR and 4x for CDRW. But after the
first 2 coasters I used 4x for the CDR which obviously didn't help. They
all have the same result of playing the first 3 songs fine, then from the
4th song onwards... nothing. Even tho all songs are correctly listed in
xmms. Got so desperate that I tried Windows with winamp which played
almost all of the 4th song then died.
I gave my old HP9310 CD-Writer to a friend whose system couldn't take this
new USB CD-Writer. Never had a problem with the old one but haven't used
this new one all that much.
> If you are copying other CD's, keep in mind that Copy Protection can mess
> things up. If you are copying someone else's ISO, you may want to mount
> it as a loopback device and check the properties. I have had initial
> configuration difficulties with Xcdroast and K3B but have both working
> now without any problems or errors.
Sorry, I wasn't very specific there. I didn't actually copy on-the-fly, I
ripped the audio CD to hard drive and then burnt to CDR. Each song plays
fine from the hard drive. I even deleted them and ripped again several
times using various apps, all with the same result.
> Happy to help if you give me more details of your exact situation.
I tried burning from the command line, xcdroast, k3b, and eroaster which is
the program I use the most. I also tried burning as root user.
Data (backups, etc) works fine with this burner on the same CDRs. However I
burnt MDK 9.1 ISOs which wouldn't work from my old CD-ROM drive but worked
in my newer CD-ROM drive on another system.
I haven't tried burning a different audio CD yet but will give it a go
today. Maybe its just that particular audio CD.
Using MDK 9.1 with a BTC 5224UI External USB 2.0 CD-Writer (52x 24x 52x).
Your help and advice is much appreciated as always.
Sharrea
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$ cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=1,0,0 -pad -audio /home/sharrea/music/wav/*.wav
Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 2
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'CDWRITER'
Identifikation : 'IDE5224 '
Revision : '001H'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1951488 = 1905 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: audio 27 MB (02:45.09) no preemp
Track 02: audio 32 MB (03:14.82) no preemp
Track 03: audio 43 MB (04:17.42) no preemp
Track 04: audio 29 MB (02:56.98) no preemp
Track 05: audio 27 MB (02:45.73) no preemp
Track 06: audio 37 MB (03:40.73) no preemp
Track 07: audio 26 MB (02:38.80) no preemp
Track 08: audio 25 MB (02:34.41) no preemp
Track 09: audio 33 MB (03:22.08) no preemp
Track 10: audio 33 MB (03:17.70) no preemp
Track 11: audio 22 MB (02:14.26) no preemp
Track 12: audio 30 MB (03:01.09) no preemp
Track 13: audio 25 MB (02:29.25) no preemp
Track 14: audio 22 MB (02:15.26) no preemp
Track 15: audio 27 MB (02:43.73) no preemp
Track 16: audio 27 MB (02:42.28) no preemp
Track 17: audio 20 MB (02:04.29) no preemp
Track 18: audio 26 MB (02:36.78) no preemp
Track 19: audio 22 MB (02:10.86) no preemp
Track 20: audio 29 MB (02:56.86) no preemp
Total size: 579 MB (57:26.50) = 258488 sectors
Lout start: 580 MB (57:28/38) = 258488 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 5
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2)
ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66)
ATIP start of lead out: 359846 (79:59/71)
Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 3
Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
Blocks total: 359846 Blocks current: 359846 Blocks remaining: 101358
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
BURN-Free is OFF.
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 27 of 27 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 16%] 5.2x.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 29122464/29122464 (12382 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 12534
Track 02: 32 of 32 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 45%] 5.1x.
Track 02: Total bytes read/written: 34367424/34367424 (14612 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 27298
Track 03: 43 of 43 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 70%] 5.1x.
Track 03: Total bytes read/written: 45410064/45410064 (19307 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 46757
Track 04: 29 of 29 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 55%] 4.9x.
Track 04: Total bytes read/written: 31220448/31220448 (13274 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 60183
Track 05: 27 of 27 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 81%] 5.1x.
Track 05: Total bytes read/written: 29235360/29235360 (12430 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 72765
Track 06: 37 of 37 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 46%] 5.3x.
Track 06: Total bytes read/written: 38937360/38937360 (16555 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 89472
Track 07: 26 of 26 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 32%] 5.2x.
Track 07: Total bytes read/written: 28012320/28012320 (11910 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 101534
Track 08: 25 of 25 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 70%] 4.7x.
Track 08: Total bytes read/written: 27238512/27238512 (11581 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 113267
Track 09: 33 of 33 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 56%] 5.2x.
Track 09: Total bytes read/written: 35646912/35646912 (15156 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 128575
Track 10: 33 of 33 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 16%] 5.3x.
Track 10: Total bytes read/written: 34875456/34875456 (14828 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 143555
Track 11: 22 of 22 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 67%] 4.5x.
Track 11: Total bytes read/written: 23684640/23684640 (10070 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 153777
Track 12: 30 of 30 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 25%] 5.1x.
Track 12: Total bytes read/written: 31944864/31944864 (13582 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 167511
Track 13: 25 of 25 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 79%] 5.4x.
Track 13: Total bytes read/written: 26328288/26328288 (11194 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 178857
Track 14: 22 of 22 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 62%] 4.6x.
Track 14: Total bytes read/written: 23861040/23861040 (10145 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 189154
Track 15: 27 of 27 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 17%] 5.3x.
Track 15: Total bytes read/written: 28882560/28882560 (12280 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 201586
Track 16: 27 of 27 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 19%] 5.3x.
Track 16: Total bytes read/written: 28626192/28626192 (12171 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 213909
Track 17: 20 of 20 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 15%] 5.2x.
Track 17: Total bytes read/written: 21925344/21925344 (9322 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 223383
Track 18: 26 of 26 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 42%] 5.2x.
Track 18: Total bytes read/written: 27657168/27657168 (11759 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 235294
Track 19: 22 of 22 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 53%] 4.5x.
Track 19: Total bytes read/written: 23084880/23084880 (9815 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 245261
Track 20: 29 of 29 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 42%] 5.3x.
Track 20: Total bytes read/written: 31199280/31199280 (13265 sectors).
Writing time: 713.581s
Average write speed 4.8x.
Min drive buffer fill was 12%
Fixating...
Fixating time: 37.897s
cdrecord: fifo had 9479 puts and 9479 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 9414 times full, min fill was 98%.
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