Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Mike Edenfield wrote:
> 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
>    

I see your points but it just finished burning about 6 more very full 
DVDs with not one single error.  They burned with no prompts other than 
the usual things it does to confirm what I am doing, such as overwriting 
a DVD with data on it.   Since it was failing basically every time 
before and has not failed since downgrading cdrtools, it appears not to 
be hardware but a software issue.  I guess I could install the newer 
version of cdrtools and see if it fails again.  If it does, then it is 
software.  If not, then I'm not sure what to think really.  Well, I 
think I will switch back to this version of cdrtools since it works.  ;-)

Since I deleted the old backups, I would have to create a new set tho. I 
remove them as I burn them since it sort of fills that partition up 
pretty quick.  I tend to forget to delete them if I don't do it at the 
time.

Dale

:-)  :-)