CD R/W Not Writable

[Rockinghorse Winner]

I recently tried brasero for first time, and was surprised to see the
Hitachi drive in this Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop flagged as *Not Writable* by
the burner application. Surprised because I'd never had trouble with this
drive and any other Linux I've tried, including Edgy. (I now have Mint
Cassandra/Feisty).

The drive is mounted, and can play cd's and dvd's fine. I just cannot write
to it. I've only tried one brand of CD r/w so far.

Here is the relevant section of lshw:

*-cdrom
description: DVD reader
product: RW/DVD GCC-4241N
vendor: HL-DT-ST
physical id: 1
bus info: ***@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: A101
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd
configuration: ansiversion=5
*-disc
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/cdrom

And this is the entry in /etc/fstab:

/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 users,rw,auto 0 0

Has anyone heard of a problem with this drive? Or perhaps the configuration
is incorrect?

*R* *H*

[andrew]

Post by Rockinghorse Winner
I recently tried brasero for first time, and was surprised to see the
Hitachi drive in this Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop flagged as *Not Writable* by
the burner application. Surprised because I'd never had trouble with this
drive and any other Linux I've tried, including Edgy. (I now have Mint
Cassandra/Feisty).

Hi RH! Have you tried eliminating the gui and using a commandline burn?
My apologies if this is well known to you but my most utilised CLI burn
would be the following to burn an .iso file to dvd:

$ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=my_files.iso

This _should_ work if this drive has worked with other distros and then
the finger would be pointing well and truly at brasero.

Andrew

[Moog]

Post by Rockinghorse Winner
I recently tried brasero for first time, and was surprised to see the
Hitachi drive in this Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop flagged as *Not Writable* by
the burner application. Surprised because I'd never had trouble with this
drive and any other Linux I've tried, including Edgy. (I now have Mint
Cassandra/Feisty).
The drive is mounted, and can play cd's and dvd's fine. I just cannot write
to it. I've only tried one brand of CD r/w so far.
*-cdrom
description: DVD reader
product: RW/DVD GCC-4241N
vendor: HL-DT-ST
physical id: 1
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: A101
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd
configuration: ansiversion=5
*-disc
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 users,rw,auto 0 0
Has anyone heard of a problem with this drive? Or perhaps the configuration
is incorrect?
*R* *H*

First thing to try is change the auto to "noauto" in your fstab

If that doesn't help -
It sounds like your user is not being granted access to the "cdrom"
group.

What hnappens when you run
$ gksudo brasero
from a terminal window?

[Rockinghorse Winner]

Post by Moog

Post by Rockinghorse Winner
I recently tried brasero for first time, and was surprised to see the
Hitachi drive in this Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop flagged as *Not Writable* by
the burner application. Surprised because I'd never had trouble with this
drive and any other Linux I've tried, including Edgy. (I now have Mint
Cassandra/Feisty).
The drive is mounted, and can play cd's and dvd's fine. I just cannot write
to it. I've only tried one brand of CD r/w so far.
*-cdrom
description: DVD reader
product: RW/DVD GCC-4241N
vendor: HL-DT-ST
physical id: 1
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: A101
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd
configuration: ansiversion=5
*-disc
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 users,rw,auto 0 0
Has anyone heard of a problem with this drive? Or perhaps the configuration
is incorrect?
*R* *H*

First thing to try is change the auto to "noauto" in your fstab
If that doesn't help -
It sounds like your user is not being granted access to the "cdrom"
group.
What hnappens when you run
$ gksudo brasero
from a terminal window?

I changed the fstab, but there was no difference. And brasero via gksudo
gives the same notice: disk is not writable.

It's also unusual in that brasero takes a long time (~60 seconds) to
initialize, while no errors appear on the CLI.

I have also been unsucessful in getting the CLI command wodim to burn a file
to disk. Here are the errors wodim throws up:

wodim: No write mode specified.
wodim: Asuming -tao mode.
wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults.
Quickly guessing the name of a drive capable to write CD-R, please wait...
Found /dev/cdrw, assuming dev=/dev/cdrw
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'HL-DT-ST'
Identification : 'RW/DVD GCC-4241N'
Revision : 'A101'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Speed set to 4234 KB/s
wodim: Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper status.
wodim: Cannot load media with this drive!
wodim: Try to load media by hand.
Re-load disk and hit <CR>
wodim: Cannot get next writable address for 'invisible' track.
wodim: This means that we are checking recorded media.
wodim: This media cannot be written in streaming mode anymore.
wodim: If you like to write to 'preformatted' RW media, try to blank the
media first.
Speed set to 4234 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 24.0 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
wodim: Cannot get next writable address for 'invisible' track.
wodim: This means that we are checking recorded media.
wodim: This media cannot be written in streaming mode anymore.
wodim: If you like to write to 'preformatted' RW media, try to blank the
media first.
wodim: Cannot get next writable address.

When I try to blank the disk I get the error:

Errno: 5 (Input/output error), blank unit scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: A1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 30 06 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x06 (cannot format medium - incompatible medium) Fru
0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 9600s
wodim: Cannot blank disk, aborting.

Can you make sense of this?

Might another brand/type of disk work better? I'll have to try that.

If I can't get it to work, I have the option to swap out this drive for another
or get an external drive, and hope I find one that works!

BTW, when I ran brasero on a Toshiba Satellite it started up immediately and
burned disks w/o problem using the same type of disks. This was the same
Mint Cassandra/Feisty that i'm using on this Dell. So I guess I may infer
it's some h/w incompatibility.


*R* *H*

[Rockinghorse Winner]

Post by Rockinghorse Winner

Post by Moog

Post by Rockinghorse Winner
I recently tried brasero for first time, and was surprised to see the
Hitachi drive in this Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop flagged as *Not Writable* by
the burner application. Surprised because I'd never had trouble with this
drive and any other Linux I've tried, including Edgy. (I now have Mint
Cassandra/Feisty).
The drive is mounted, and can play cd's and dvd's fine. I just cannot write
to it. I've only tried one brand of CD r/w so far.
*-cdrom
description: DVD reader
product: RW/DVD GCC-4241N
vendor: HL-DT-ST
physical id: 1
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: A101
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd
configuration: ansiversion=5
*-disc
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 users,rw,auto 0 0
Has anyone heard of a problem with this drive? Or perhaps the configuration
is incorrect?
*R* *H*

First thing to try is change the auto to "noauto" in your fstab
If that doesn't help -
It sounds like your user is not being granted access to the "cdrom"
group.
What hnappens when you run
$ gksudo brasero
from a terminal window?

I changed the fstab, but there was no difference. And brasero via gksudo
gives the same notice: disk is not writable.
It's also unusual in that brasero takes a long time (~60 seconds) to
initialize, while no errors appear on the CLI.
I have also been unsucessful in getting the CLI command wodim to burn a file
wodim: No write mode specified.
wodim: Asuming -tao mode.
wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults.
Quickly guessing the name of a drive capable to write CD-R, please wait...
Found /dev/cdrw, assuming dev=/dev/cdrw
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 5
Response Format: 2
Vendor_info : 'HL-DT-ST'
Identification : 'RW/DVD GCC-4241N'
Revision : 'A101'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Speed set to 4234 KB/s
wodim: Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper status.
wodim: Cannot load media with this drive!
wodim: Try to load media by hand.
Re-load disk and hit <CR>
wodim: Cannot get next writable address for 'invisible' track.
wodim: This means that we are checking recorded media.
wodim: This media cannot be written in streaming mode anymore.
wodim: If you like to write to 'preformatted' RW media, try to blank the
media first.
Speed set to 4234 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 24.0 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
wodim: Cannot get next writable address for 'invisible' track.
wodim: This means that we are checking recorded media.
wodim: This media cannot be written in streaming mode anymore.
wodim: If you like to write to 'preformatted' RW media, try to blank the
media first.
wodim: Cannot get next writable address.
Errno: 5 (Input/output error), blank unit scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: A1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 30 06 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x06 (cannot format medium - incompatible medium) Fru
0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 9600s
wodim: Cannot blank disk, aborting.

I get the following errors in my dmseg readout:

7886.304000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1200
[ 7886.304000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 150
[ 7886.308000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1200
[ 7886.308000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 150
[ 7886.312000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1200
[ 7886.312000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 150
[ 7886.312000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1200
[ 7886.312000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 150
[ 7886.316000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1200
[ 7886.316000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 150
[ 7886.320000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1200
[ 7886.320000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 150
[ 7886.584000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1200
[ 7886.584000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 150
[ 7886.584000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1200
[ 7886.584000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 150
[ 7917.420000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

does the drive not recognize the cdr?

*R* *H*

[Moog]

<snip>
BTW, when I ran brasero on a Toshiba Satellite it started up immediately and
burned disks w/o problem using the same type of disks. This was the same
Mint Cassandra/Feisty that i'm using on this Dell. So I guess I may infer
it's some h/w incompatibility.

Possibly a problem with the media or the drive alignment.

You are seeing everything correctly but the media is coming back as
unwritable.

Borrow or beg another drive and see if it is the same.

[TomB]

Post by Rockinghorse Winner
The drive is mounted

Just being pedantic: actually the filesystem on the disc inside the
drive is mounted.