SATA drive won't burn CD or DVD

i haven't tried it in edgy deta, but i have the same problem with dapper...

Thank you for your bug report.
Could you please try with cdrecord to see if this behaviour occours?

cdrecord doesn't work for me. it only works in SAO mode, i think...

it may have something to do with the automounting process.
i was once able to burn just fine using nerolinux, but then i noticed that my automounting wasn't working. i followed this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=184786 to enable automounting but then i couldn't burn again.

i am now using brasero to burn cds and dvds and, so far, it's working great. however, it still doesn't have all the cdrecord/k3b features...

cdrecord doesn't work:

stephan@solaris:~$ cdrecord -v speed=16 dev=1,0,0 driveropts=burnfree --dummy /home/stephan/Downloads/compressed/ooo_2.0.1_20051221_win_lin_mac_de.iso
cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Joerg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
      and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
      Please send bug reports and support requests to <email address hidden>.
      The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.

cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.17-10-generic
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.33
Using libscg version 'debian-0.8debian2'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (debian-0.8debian2 '@(#)scsitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling').
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'HL-DT-ST'
Identifikation : 'DVDRAM GMA-4082N'
Revision : 'HA01'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: 0x0009
Profile: 0x0012
Profile: 0x0011
Profile: 0x0015
Profile: 0x0014
Profile: 0x0013
Profile: 0x001A
Profile: 0x001B
Profile: 0x002B
Profile: 0x0010
Profile: 0x0009
Profile: 0x000A
Profile: 0x0008 (current)
Profile: 0x0002
cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code.
cdrecord: See /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.DVD.Debian for details on DVD support.
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
Drive buf size : 1053696 = 1029 KB
Drive DMA Speed: 13784 kB/s 78x CD 9x DVD
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 698 MB
Total size: 802 MB (79:29.37) = 357703 sectors
Lout start: 802 MB (79:31/28) = 357703 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
  Indicated writing power: 4
  Is not unrestricted
  Is not erasable
  Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2)
  ATIP start of lead in: -12508 (97:15/17)
  ATIP start of lead out: 359845 (79:59/70)
Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 22
Manufacturer: Ritek Co.
Blocks total: 359845 Blocks current: 359845 Blocks remaining: 2142
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 16 in dummy TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting dummy write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
BURN-Free is OFF.
Turning BURN-Free on
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 1 of 698 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 1.8x.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: ...

I am experiencing the same problem with Kubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) final release using K3b which sits on top of cdrecord.
Laptop is a Lenovo 3000 N100
System Info
-----------------------
K3b Version: 0.12.17

KDE Version: 3.5.5
QT Version: 3.3.6
Kernel: 2.6.17-10-generic
Devices
-----------------------
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GMA-4082N HA01 (/dev/scd0, /dev/sg1) at /media/cdrom0 [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM; DVD-ROM; DVD-RAM; DVD-R; DVD-RW; DVD-R DL; DVD+R; DVD+RW; DVD+R DL] [DVD-ROM; DVD-R Sequential; DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential; DVD-RAM; DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite; DVD-RW Sequential; DVD+RW; DVD+R; DVD+R Double Layer; CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96P; SAO/R96R; RAW/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R; Restricted Overwrite]

K3b
-----------------------
Size of filesystem calculated: 8744

Used versions
-----------------------
cdrecord: 2.1.1a03

Same issue. There seems to be two /dev entries for one physical device. I also observe the same 'drive returns wrong startsec error'. In the interests of saving space I have included the debugging output from k3b as an attachment. It means little to me but might help someone fix this bug

Work around.

If anyone is still having issues with this I've found an alternative solution. There is another CD burning app called brasero (also known as Bonfire) which works just fine for me. My system config is in the previous post. The application is available from the ubuntu repositories, it uses libburn as a backend instead of cdrecord which I think may be the source of this bug.

I installed the packages 'brasero' and 'libburn2' through adept and it just works. So far I've burned a collection of assorted data files and an install/liveCD and both have worked fine. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of documentation but the app is so straightforward it's self explanatory once you open it. The only thing that doesn't work for me is multisession but I'm led to believe it's in the pipeline for a future release.

yes, i've been using brasero with dapper and it works just fine.
however, brasero still doesn't have all the k3b features...

I can confirm this bug using Edgy Eft 6.10 on a Lenovo N100 using this drive:

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GMA-4082N

I had this problem, but I think the answer is here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/K3BHowto. Use cdrskin instead of cdrecord.

John,
unfortunately, this didn't do it. I enabled the address translation and did everything else this guide suggested. I can, however, burn using Brasero (which in turn uses the libburn2 library), so I guess this might have something to do with cdrskin.

It turned out data cds with k3b didn't work for me either. I disabled the on th fly option. Everything seemed to work and said it was successful, but I can't read the disc. The disc is not exactly blank anymore just messed up. I tested it originally by making an audio cd. Adding cdrskin in place of cdrecord just caused k3b to burn audio cds with cdrdao instead of cdrskin, which apparently works fine for me. I should have been more observant. Brasero works for me also.

I got k3b to run with libburn (this time I'm absolutely sure). I downloaded the latest (0.3.4) libburn from http://libburnia.pykix.org/. I compiled it and installed in /usr/local/. I had to do "sudo chown root:cdrom /dev/sg1" to let me make a cd without being root. I tested cdrskin by running "cdrskin k3b_image.iso /dev/scd0" that worked. I added /usr/local/bin/cdrskin to the search path in k3b, and restarted k3b. I set cdrskin to be the default for cdrecord. Then I tried to burn a data cd. It didn't work at first, but I disabled overburn and write on the fly. Then it worked. I enabled on the fly, and it still worked.

I'm not quite sure why it didn't work at first, but it works now.

well, k3b is now working fine on my machine with the latest feisty.
gnomebaker still doesn't work, though...

I can confirm that this is fixed in the latest feisty. Running Kubuntu feisty fully up to date as of 11/04/2007 on a Lenovo 3000 N100. k3b version 1.0 with kde 3.5.5

This is fixed in feisty. If anyone is still having trouble the bug can be reopened

Don't known if I should be presenting this here.

Burning a CD:
Being new to Linux and Unix and having installed Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn ) a month ago, I don't known if any of this information is useful. Prior to this installation, both devices worked with Windows (don't want to use) and Fedora 6 (problems).
 When I try to burn a CD with C/D / DVD creator, the following messages appeared:
(1) Reload a rewritable or blank disk (it can read size of file) and (2) writing files to disk.
When I right click on CD-RW/DVD RW Drive:
 This message appears: Cannot mount volume. Invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume 'UDF Volume'.
Also, when I try to mount the floppy, this message appears; cannot mount volume. mount: /dev/fdo is not a valid block device.

Both of these devices can read a disk.
Below are commands I ran after looking a bug reports #62986,#66254,#44233 and #6415.

At the end of running DMESG

[ 47.544000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[22866.180000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[23156.092000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[23253.824000] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[23253.848000] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[23257.664000] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[23257.688000] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[23267.016000] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[23267.040000] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[23327.592000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[24460.608000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[24666.344000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[24666.344000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[30979.064000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

$ mount
/dev/sdb1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda2 on /media/windows type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)

uname -a
Linux jack-desktop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Wed May 23 01:46:23 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

$ /usr/lib/nautilus-cd-burner/list_cddrives
Drive:
  name: DVD+-RW TS-H653A
  device: /dev/scd0
  door: closed
  type: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, CD, DVD
  is mounted: FALSE
  max read speed: 8468 KiB/s (CD 56.4x, DVD 6.2x)
  max write speed: 8468 KiB/s (CD 56.4x, DVD 6.2x)
  write speeds: 8468 KiB/s (CD 56.4x, DVD 6.2x)
                        7056 KiB/s (CD 47.0x, DVD 5.2x)
                        5645 KiB/s (CD 37.6x, DVD 4.1x)
                        4234 KiB/s (CD 28.2x, DVD 3.1x)
                        2823 KiB/s (CD 18.8x, DVD 2.0x)
                        1412 KiB/s (CD 9.4x, DVD 1.0x)

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