I justed to update people on the list about what I've discovered about my
problems with running cdrecord on my new Linux box. At first, I had no
problems, then I was unable to erase re-writable cds or complete the
process of writing to recordable cds. I looked through all the newsgroups
and talked to the VA Linux folks. I even emailed the author of cdrecord
who said the log files showed nothing really wrong on cdrecord's end. He
suspected a Linux kernel problem.
Turns out it was Gnome! I had been running cdrecord from the command line
inside Gnome. Last night, as a lark, I thought I would quit out of Gnome
and run tests without X. Everything worked great. And I think the reason
things initially worked well was because I was running inside KDE, but
then switched desktops to Gnome.
Why on earth would running inside Gnome cause problems like that, spewing
out error messages and scsi card timeout errors in my /var/log/message
file? I would love to hear what people think.
Gary
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Gary Nielson wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Gary Nielson wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just got a new va linux system and successfully configured cdrecord to
> > > write cds. I am using this to back up data in my home directory. The last
> > > two cd's I've tried to create with cdrecord have produced an error message
> > > I do not understand. Can someone help explain what is going on and what I
> > > can do to correct it? It's listed toward the bottom below and is a i/o
> > > scsi error (i have a scsi sony 10/4/32 cdrw drive). Any help much
> > > appreciated.
> > >
> > There was some talk that the latest release version of
> > cdrecord had a bug in it... you might want to see if
> > there's a newer cdrecord binary available out there on the
> > web. Try to find cdrecord at FreshMeat.net or on Linuxberg.
> > John
> >
> Thank you for your advice. I went to FreshMeat and compiled the latest
> version of cdrecord-1.9 (mine was 1.8) and still the same
> problem. Moreover, when I try to blank a cd-rW disk, cdrecord aborts with:
>
> root@va bin]# /opt/schily/bin/cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,6,0 blank=all >
> /tmp/record.txt
> /opt/schily/bin/cdrecord: Drive needs to reload the media to return to
> proper status.
> /opt/schily/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. blank unit: scsi
> sendcmd: retryable error
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> /opt/schily/bin/cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting.
>
> The perplexing thing is that everything worked fine the other night and I
> have made no changes to my system since.
>
> Gary
>
>
>
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