Public bug reported: Tried to blank a CD-RW on my Lenovo Thinkpad T61p, output as follows:
$ sudo wodim -vv dev=/dev/scd0 blank=all [sudo] password: TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '/dev/scd0' devname: '/dev/scd0' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Wodim version: 1.1.9 Using libusal version 'Cdrkit-1.1.9'. SCSI buffer size: 64512 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'HL-DT-ST' Identification : 'RW/DVD GCC-M10N ' Revision : '1.02' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. Current: 0x000A (CD-RW) Profile: 0x0010 (DVD-ROM) Profile: 0x0008 (CD-ROM) Profile: 0x0009 (CD-R) Profile: 0x000A (CD-RW) (current) Supported CD-RW media types: 07 Drive current speed: 4 Drive default speed: 4 Drive max speed : 4 Selected speed : 4 Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1601712 = 1564 KB Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device communication breaks or freezes immediately after that. 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 01 AA 01 01 00 00 00 00 Track 1 start -150 Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Reference speed: 2 Is not unrestricted Is erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11745 (97:25/30) ATIP start of lead out: 359363 (79:53/38) 1T speed low: 0 (reserved val 0) 1T speed high: 4 2T speed low: 8 2T speed high: 0 (reserved val 10) power mult factor: 4 6 recommended erase/write power: 5 A1 values: 02 4C D0 A2 values: 4A D8 5A Disk type: Phase change Manuf. index: 40 Manufacturer: INFODISC Technology Co., Ltd. Speed set to 706 KB/s Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4.0 in real BLANK mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation starts. Performing OPC... Blanking entire disk Errno: 5 (Input/output error), blank unit scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: A1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 1258.728s timeout 9600s wodim: Cannot blank disk, aborting. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Jan 2 19:48:44 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: wodim 9:1.1.9-1ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic SourcePackage: cdrkit Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686 ** Affects: cdrkit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 -- wodim command returns "Cannot blank disk, aborting" on CD-RW https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502498 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs