Hi folks -- hope someone will point out my error. I've got the most recent version of cdrtools, and I've upgraded the firmware on my CD-RW drive, and yet I can't manage to burn an audio CD, even with "speed=1". I'm using the same media in both cases (Imation 700MB If anyone spots my mistake, or can offer useful questions or answers, I'd be most appreciative. Here's sample output from making a data CD: bernie:/tmp/gnut/coyote # mkisofs -J -r -o /tmp/coyoteugly.iso * 15.89% done, estimate finish Fri Apr 5 15:21:15 2002 31.79% done, estimate finish Fri Apr 5 15:21:21 2002 47.69% done, estimate finish Fri Apr 5 15:21:25 2002 63.60% done, estimate finish Fri Apr 5 15:21:26 2002 79.47% done, estimate finish Fri Apr 5 15:21:26 2002 95.37% done, estimate finish Fri Apr 5 15:21:26 2002 Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 1509 Total directory bytes: 0 Path table size(bytes): 10 Max brk space used 7ba4 31472 extents written (61 Mb) bernie:/tmp/gnut/coyote # cdrecord -dev 0,0,0 -speed 12 -data /tmp/coyoteugly.iso Cdrecord 1.11a19 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'LG ' Identifikation : 'CD-RW CED-8120B ' Revision : '2.00' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 12 in write mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation starts. Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 64454656/64454656 (31472 sectors). That CD works fine. Now here's an attempt to burn two .cdr files (I've tried making .cdr files with both xmms and (mpg123 | sox)) as CD-Audio: bernie:/tmp/gnut/stld # cdrecord -dev 0,0,0 -speed 12 -audio -pad -dummy -v -v *cdr Cdrecord 1.11a19 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' Using libscg transport code version 'schily-%M%-%I%' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'LG ' Identifikation : 'CD-RW CED-8120B ' Revision : '2.00' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 5185536 = 5064 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: audio 38 MB (03:50.33) no preemp swab Track 02: audio 44 MB (04:25.90) no preemp swab track: 1 start: 0 pregap: 150 track: 2 start: 17425 pregap: 150 Total size: 83 MB (08:18.24) = 37368 sectors Lout start: 84 MB (08:20/18) = 37368 sectors 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 01 00 00 00 02 00 01 02 00 00 00 03 34 19 01 02 01 00 00 03 36 19 01 AA 01 01 00 08 14 12 Track 1 start 0 Track 2 start 17425 Track 3 start 37368 01 00 A0 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 01 00 A1 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 01 00 A2 00 00 00 00 08 20 18 00 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 01 00 02 00 00 00 00 03 54 25 00 00 Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2) ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 3 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 322481 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 12 in dummy mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 0 of 38 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1B 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 64 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, 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 0 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 5.031s Fixating... WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode. Fixating time: 0.004s cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. And here's some info on my system. uname: Linux bernie 2.4.10-4GB #1 Fri Sep 28 17:20:21 GMT 2001 i686 unknown dmesg: Linux version 2.4.10-4GB (root@Pentium.suse.de) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)) #1 Fri Sep 28 17:20:21 GMT 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000ffc0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000ffc0000 - 000000000fff8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000000fff8000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 65472 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 61376 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Found and enabled local APIC! Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=303 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz enableapic vga=0x0317 hdc=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi Initializing CPU#0 Detected 730.977 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1458.17 BogoMIPS Memory: 254656k/261888k available (1289k kernel code, 6844k reserved, 381k data, 124k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000040 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 730.9663 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 132.9027 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 1329027, slice: 664513 CPU0T0:1329024,T1:664496,D:15,S:664513,C:1329027 mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda95, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/2440] at 00:1f.0 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14) Starting kswapd VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf2000000, mapped to 0xd0800000, size 32768k vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=0 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:0393 vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 Looking for boot splash picture.... found (1024x768, 32431 bytes). Initializing splash screen... done. Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 104x34 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e block: 128 slots per queue, batch=16 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: WDC WD102BB, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC AC36400L, ATA DISK drive hdc: LG CD-RW CED-8120B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 20028960 sectors (10255 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=1246/255/63, UDMA(100) hdb: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=784/255/63, UDMA(33) ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 loop: loaded (max 8 devices) ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Uncompressing.....................................................done. Freeing initrd memory: 591k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: LG Model: CD-RW CED-8120B Rev: 2.00 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Journalled Block Device driver loaded VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=2 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 124k freed Adding Swap: 498004k swap-space (priority 42) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.9, 5 Sep 2001 on ide0(3,1), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. ip_tables: (c)2000 Netfilter core team ip_conntrack (2046 buckets, 16368 max) PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 01:0d.0 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 01:0d.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xdc00. Vers LK1.1.16 usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1f.2 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64 uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xef80, IRQ 10 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected uhci.c: :USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2 usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x5a9/0x511) is not claimed by any active driver. IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0 IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver Linux video capture interface: v1.00 usb.c: registered new driver ov511 ov511.c: USB OV511 camera found ov511.c: camera: generic model (no ID) ov511.c: Sensor is an OV76BE ov511.c: OV511 USB Camera Driver v1.41 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(88) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(88) parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 6L lp0: using parport0 (polling). PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:0a.0 eth0: no IPv6 routers present Switching off penguin. Thanks in advance, Ben