Can't burn DVDs

[Bill Davidsen]

Konstantin Svist wrote:
> I just tried burning a DVD (authored by DeVeDe) and both K3b and
> GnomeBaker fail to start writing. Clean boot doesn't help, neither does
> lowering the write speed to 4x.
> Anyone else having this problem?
> 
That's because the message says "device not ready" and no change in parameters 
will make it work until you address that. Bad media, bad cable, bad burner, I 
can't tell. It's likely to be hardware, but I don't normally use the frontends 
for the tools, so you may have made a mistake in starting the run.

> kernel:
> 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686
> 
> dmesg:
> cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
> sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
> sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
> sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Logical block address out of range
> end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
> ...
> warning: `growisofs' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)
> ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
> ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:80/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 32768 out
>          cdb 2a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>          res 40/00:02:00:18:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
> ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
> ata2: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
> ata2: soft resetting link
> ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
> ata2: EH complete
> 


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