I fixed the problem posted earlier (not sure how, but it didn't involve making any changes to my system).
Now, I have another problem with it :-\ I've run some searches on google and deja for the error message and it appears to be a fairly common problem with recent versions of cdrecord but no one appears to have a fix for it. Those that have fixed it appear to have done so by downgrading their version of cdrecord. Before downgrading to whatever's in stable, I was wondering if maybe the version in unstable might've fixed the problem... or if anyone on this list happens to know what's causing the problem. The error I'm getting follows (the .cdr files I'm passing to cdrecord were created by running .wav files through sox). Also, I believe my cdr drive is a BTC BCE621E IDE drive using ide-scsi (not sure if the 621E is correct) which is listed as working with cdrecord... and has worked for me with cdrecord. As I said, this drive has worked fine beginning a couple years ago under Windows until earlier this year under Mandrake. It didn't work under Progeny and currently doesn't work under Woody. # cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=0,0,0 -audio foo.cdr bar.cdr foobar.cdr ... Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 2.1.38 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'OTI-975 ' Identifikation : 'SOCRATES ' Revision : '2.0D' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 786432 = 768 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: audio 49 MB (04:53.46) no preemp swab Track 02: audio 37 MB (03:42.14) no preemp swab Track 03: audio 37 MB (03:42.93) no preemp swab Track 04: audio 59 MB (05:54.22) no preemp swab Track 05: audio 36 MB (03:34.54) no preemp swab Track 06: audio 46 MB (04:34.65) no preemp swab Track 07: audio 35 MB (03:31.49) no preemp swab Track 08: audio 40 MB (04:02.00) no preemp swab Track 09: audio 36 MB (03:35.25) no preemp swab Track 10: audio 52 MB (05:12.28) no preemp swab Track 11: audio 54 MB (05:25.62) no preemp swab Track 12: audio 48 MB (04:46.36) no preemp swab Total size: 537 MB (53:16.98) = 239774 sectors Lout start: 538 MB (53:18/74) = 239774 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP start of lead in: -12294 (97:18/06) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: unknown Manuf. index: -1 Manufacturer: unknown (not in table) Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 260965 Blocks remaining: 21191 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in write mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: 98809 Track 01: 0 of 49 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) CDB: 2A 00 00 01 83 58 00 00 1B 00 Sense Bytes: F0 00 06 00 00 00 00 0A 00 02 65 09 29 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x6 Unit Attention, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x29 Qual 0x00 (power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid) cdrecord: Input/output error. flush cache: scsi sendcmd: retryable error status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) write track data: error after 825552 bytes Sense Bytes: F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 02 69 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00 CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Sense Bytes: F0 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 02 69 0C 04 01 00 00 Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x01 (logical unit is in process of becoming ready) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid) cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 120s Trouble flushing the cache Writing time: 58.093s Fixating... (repeat similar output several times) cdrecord: fifo had 77 puts and 14 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 7 times full, min fill was 95%.