[NCLUG] CD burning problems

[Daniel Miles]

Well, from that you know it's not your front-end that's causing the
problem.

The error was "illegal mode for this track" and the only other thing
about mode I saw in that output was "TAO mode."

Maybe you can try it again with the -dao flag (disk-at-once vs
track-at-once).

The other thing I *think* I gathered from the strange and garbled stuff
that google found for me on help forums is that you may be passing it
invalid data.

It looks to me like you passed it a wav file to burn (for future
reference not only the output is useful here but the command as well).
Are you sure the wav file is valid? Did you make sure to pass the -audio
and the -pad options?

Audio CD tracks have to be a multiple of a certain number of blocks so
the -pad option is important. It just pads the track with enough silence
that it comes out to the right length. It's less than a blip to the
human ear so don't worry about it for what it sounds like, you just need
to put it in there.

I think that passing the -audio flag without the -pad flag is going to
cause you problems (possibly illegal mode problems) unless the wav files
happen to be *exactly* the right length (and I doubt that).

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 11:36, Dan Fink wrote:
>   I tried using cdrecord from the command line, and got the errors 
> below--same ones as when using the gnometoaster frontend.
> 
> This is weird though -- when I tried the "record to CD" feature in 
> Nautilus (it opens a "burn:///" folder when you insert a blank CD-R) is 
> does not give any errors while burning and says it is fixating the disc 
> -- but the resulting disc is not mountable, and not playable as an audio 
> CD either.
> 
> Hmmmmm...
> DAN
> 
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> Blocks total: 335925 Blocks current: 335925 Blocks remaining: 319589
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real TAO mode for single session.
> Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
> Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
> BURN-Free is OFF.
> Performing OPC...
> Starting new track at sector: 0
> Track 01:    1 of   36 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 
> 3.3x.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
> CDB:  2A 00 00 00 02 01 00 00 1B 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 71 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 64 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, deferred error, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x64 Qual 0x00 (illegal mode for this track) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 0.003s timeout 40s
> 
> write track data: error after 1206576 bytes
> cdrecord: A write error occured.
> cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
> Writing  time:   13.700s
> Average write speed  30.1x.
> Min drive buffer fill was 100%
> Fixating...
> cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: no error
> CDB:  5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 72 03 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x72 Qual 0x03 (session fixation error - incomplete track in 
> session) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s
> cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s
> cdrecord: Cannot fixate disk.
> Fixating time:    0.001s
> cdrecord: fifo had 83 puts and 20 gets.
> cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 8 times full, min fill was 87%.
> 
> 
> Daniel Miles wrote:
> > At the risk of sounding like a hard-ass, I think the first thing to do
> > is to test to see if it's your front-end or if it's a deeper problem.
> > 
> > Here's what I'd do:
> > I'd get a CDRW (so I didn't waste a CD just to test this) and I'd get a
> > couple of wav files and I'd type (as root):
> > # cdrecord --scanbus
> > Linux sg driver version: 3.5.29
> > Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
> > scsibus0:
> >         0,0,0     0) 'SONY  ' 'DVD RW DRU-510A ' '1.0c' Removable CD-ROM
> >         0,1,0     1) *
> >         0,2,0     2) *
> >         0,3,0     3) *
> >         0,4,0     4) *
> >         0,5,0     5) *
> >         0,6,0     6) *
> >         0,7,0     7) *
> > 
> > # cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=16 -audio -pad file1.wav ... file(n).wav
> > 
> > and see if that burns... If it does, switch your front end as has been
> > suggested but I wouldn't bother to get another one [front end] until I'd
> > tested it from the command line.
> > 
> 
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