[clug-talk] CD Drive problems

[Shawn]

I'm on my second new CD drive in a month.  The first was failing to burn 
useful CDs - could not do bootable CDs, data-cds were hit and miss if 
they worked, etc.

Now that I have a brand new drive, K3B is having nothing but problems 
writing.  As near as I can tell it is getting a hardware error when 
writing.  But this is a BRAND NEW drive just bought today, which seems 
to function fine other than burning.

I had problems with permissions initally - K3B complained that it didn't 
have permission to run cdrecord (which is now 'wodim' in *buntu due to 
some licensing issues).  I ripped out K3B, and the related tools, then 
reinstalled them until I was able to at least start K3B without 
warnings/errors.  But I think the original problem may be that the 
system now has two different drives set up, maybe....

When I try to burn a CD (with Brasero or K3B) the cue sheet is "sent", 
but then when it tries to write the data it fails immediately and the 
debug logs give me this:

Errno: 5 (Input/output error), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 00 2C AF 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 04 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 08 03 00 80
Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x08 Qual 0x03 (logical unit communication crc error 
(ultra-dma/32)) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) actual retry count 0
cmd finished after 0.959s timeout 200s
/usr/bin/wodim: A write error occured.
/usr/bin/wodim: Please properly read the error message above.
write track data: error after 23427072 bytes

Is this something worth trying to fix?  Or should I return the drive and 
go with a different brand (new drive is a Samsung)

Shawn