Quick search on Google. Found this: similar to your problem, answer by the maker of cdrecord
I'm trying to burn a music CD but cdrecord stops with a "Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error"
System: AMD Athlon, 256 MB RAM, Debian Woody Linux stable, Kernel 2.4.18 Media: TDK CD-R XG for audio Recorder: Plextor 24/10/40 A
uname -a Linux debian01 2.4.18 #24 Fri Aug 30 13:05:08 CEST 2002 i686 unknown cdrecord -version Cdrecord 2.01a01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling cdrecord -v dev=0,1,0 -dummy -audio -pad speed=24 *.wav [...] Track 08: 1 of 39 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 59%] 16.3x.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 01 6B 19 00 00 1B 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 06 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 29 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x6 Unit Attention, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x29 Qual 0x00 (power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.049s timeout 40s
The same question has been asked before.... Kill the unfriendly application that tries to access the drive while cdrecord is working. Jörg EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 schilling@fokus.fhg.de (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.fhg.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily Hope it helps FX -- ______________________ Courtesy of SuSE Linux http://www.nibz.org