I checked the howto and this drive is supported (actually, the newest howto on the web has this drive listed as supported by cdrecord. It's a Yamaha CRW6416S. I'm running potato with the 2.2.13 kernel and Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller. The errors I get from xcdroast and cdrecord are like this:
Cdrecord release 1.6.1 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 J\xf6rg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,00,00' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 atapi: 0 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 2 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : SYNC Vendor_info : 'YAMAHA ' Identifikation : 'CRW6416S ' Revision : '1.0c' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Track 01: data 650 MB Total size: 746 MB (73:59.78) = 332984 sectors Lout start: 747 MB (74:01/59) = 332984 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: 6 ATIP start of lead in: -11640 (97:26/60) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Cyanine, AZO or similar Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 26865 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 6 in dummy mode for single session. Waiting for reader process to fill input-buffer ... input-buffer ready. Starting new track at sector: 0 /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.96e/bin/cdrecord-1.6.1: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) CDB: 2A 00 00 01 B1 D0 00 00 10 00 Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x00 (logical block address out of range) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 44.493s timeout 40s write track data: error after 227442688 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 281.434s /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.96e/bin/cdrecord-1.6.1: fifo had 7069 puts and 6942 gets. /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.96e/bin/cdrecord-1.6.1: fifo waWARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode. WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode. Fixating time: 42.015s This looks like a buffer under run, but I could be wrong. I'm not exactly sure how to diagnose burner problems. I have burned CDs before though. The fact that this consistently bombs out in different places in the write has me kinda confused. Rob Carl Fink wrote: > > I just got the new Yamaha 6x4x16x CD-RW and can't seem to burn a CD. > > I would check the CD-Writing HOWTO and find if the drive was > compatible, but you haven't told us the model number. > > >It always error out with what looks like a buffer problem. > > Give the exact error message and people can be much more helpful. > -- > Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum > <http://dm.net> > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
