[KLUG Members] Problems with cdrecord

[Mike Slack]

I've recently been getting some errors when running cdrecord, and I can't tell if this is because of hardware, media, or software failure.  Does anyone know how to interpret this:

# cdrecord -v dev=3,0 speed=4 seawolf-i386-powertools.iso 
Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jorg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '3,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
atapi: 0
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : SYNC 
Vendor_info    : 'YAMAHA  '
Identifikation : 'CRW4416S        '
Revision       : '1.0f'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO
Drive buf size : 1566432 = 1529 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data  612 MB        
Total size:     702 MB (69:38.45) = 313384 sectors
Lout start:     703 MB (69:40/34) = 313384 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
  Indicated writing power: 5
  Is not unrestricted
  Is not erasable
  ATIP start of lead in:  -11940 (97:22/60)
  ATIP start of lead out: 337349 (74:59/74)
Disk type: Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar)
Manuf. index: 43
Manufacturer: Acer Media Technology, Inc.
Blocks total: 337349 Blocks current: 337349 Blocks remaining: 23965
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 453 of 612 MB written (fifo 100%).cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB:  2A 00 00 03 8B F0 00 00 10 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 04 D0 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 09 02 00 00
Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x09 Qual 0x02 (focus servo failure) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk -805306368 (not valid) 
cmd finished after 0.051s timeout 40s

write track data: error after 476020736 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
cdrecord: Input/output error. flush cache: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB:  35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 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 125.021s timeout 120s
Trouble flushing the cache
Writing  time:  919.927s
Fixating...
cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB:  5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 04 01 00 00

TIA,
Mike  

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Mike Slack
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