From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nwihn-0003p3-Ix for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:10:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6969E0DE3 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:10:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.informasoftware.com (mail.informasoftware.com [66.193.169.4]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62CB5E0B8E for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:39:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.100.74] ([192.168.100.74] RDNS failed) by mail.informasoftware.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:39:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4BB26188.8020907@kutulu.org> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:39:36 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn. References: <4BB15186.9030602@gmail.com> <20100330083952.6ca82bc9@digimed.co.uk> <4BB22006.5010400@gmail.com> <20100330172245.4d59628e@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4BB22E21.307@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BB22E21.307@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Mar 2010 20:39:29.0391 (UTC) FILETIME=[18647FF0:01CAD049] X-Archives-Salt: 25678664-78fe-4666-bc2e-a570095d5cfa X-Archives-Hash: 7e012e574e82b557e1ce9f80a4e0885f On 3/30/2010 1:00 PM, Dale wrote: > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 73 03 00 00 > Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 > Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0 > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) This part is claiming that your burner was unable to figure out what the correct power level is for writing to the media. This is entirely controlled in hardware, so there is no legitimate reason why your version of cdrecord should have any effect. It is almost always caused by: * Bad media * Bad hardware * Insufficient power supply You've basically eliminated #1 by using the same media successfully, and #3 isn't the kind of thing that just crops up, so I suspect your recorder is starting to fail. (It could be as simple as a dirty lens). The only question is why older versions of cdrecord continue to work. Can you post the output from a successful run on the same ISO as this? It would be helpful to see if cdrecord is using different settings for the different versions. In particular, if it defaulted to a lower burn speed, or didn't enable BURNFREE by default, those may change the power requirements. --K