On 26 Dec 2001, David Johanson wrote:
Until just a couple of days ago I had no trouble writing CDs on this 7.1 SuSE system, but for the past few trys I have been getting repeated failures when trying to copy a CD. The Fifo buffer fills completely, then the writing begins and makes it to between 1 to 3% then the Fifo buffer begins to empty while writing continues until the buffer is at zero at which time the system beeps, the CD tray ejscts and I get the Error writing tracks failure notice.
So this started happening for absolutely no reason? Could be a hardware failure...
Read and write speeds are both set to 8 and I'm working in DAO mode. I'm writing to 80 min disks and just realzed that I had the CD-R/RW Type: set to 74 but I wouldn't think that this is the cause in as much as it has always been there. CD for reading is a NEC CD-ROM Drive:466.
You can set the size of the CDR(W)? I have never used the 1.9 series of cdrecord, but I don't think that's an option there. As far as I can remember, cdrecord has always auto-detected the size of the disk...
Prnted below is the full output of cdrecord.out from the last attempt a few minutes ago. Any suggestion would be appreciated. It was so nice when it worked a few days back.
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-suse-linux)
cdrecord 1.9 came out 1999. I highly recommend you upgrade to the latest version (1.11a12) before we jump to any conclusions (I'm swinging toward hardware failure). -- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0