[clug-talk] CD Drive problems

[Shawn]

sata drive.  Kubuntu 9.10.

@bogi.  K3B knows about the drive - otherwise I wouldn't be able to tell 
it to burn....

Gustin Johnson wrote:
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> Is this a SATA or a PATA drive?  What distro are you using?
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> Shawn wrote:
>> 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
>>
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