hi all I tried the command line suggestion of:
cdrecord -v -dummy speed=2 dev=0,0 cd_image.raw with no luck ... here's the output from cdrecord if someone can help?!?!? thanks start------------------------------------------------------------------ Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'ATAPI ' Identifikation : 'CD-R/RW 8X4X32 ' Revision : '5.AX' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 1634304 = 1596 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 67 MB Total size: 77 MB (07:38.30) = 34373 sectors Lout start: 77 MB (07:40/23) = 34373 sectors Current Secsize: -1 ATIP start of lead in: -12525 (97:15/00) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar) Manuf. index: 26 Manufacturer: TDK Corporation Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 325476 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in dummy mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 9 seconds.8 seconds.7 seconds.6 seconds.5 seconds.4 seconds.3 seconds.2 seconds.1 seconds. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 0 of 67 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 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 0.001s timeout 40s write track data: error after 0 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 5.021s Fixating... WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode. Fixating time: 0.002s cdrecord: fifo had 128 puts and 1 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. ----------------------------------------------------------------end ------------------------------ Andrew McRobert B.Sc.(Comp. Sci.) LL.B LL.M Info. Tech. Liaison Officer School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: + 61 8 9360 6479 Fax: + 61 8 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
