Ubuntu

SATA drive won't burn CD or DVD

Asked by Stephan Fabel on 2006-08-09

Using k3b (cdrecord or growisofs) on a Lenovo 3000 N100 Laptop with a CD/DVD double-layer burner, no burning is possible: neither CD-ROM, nor DVD or DVD DL works.

CD-ROM burn process fails with the error (from the debug log):
drecord
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/usr/bin/X11/cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.15-26-686
/usr/bin/X11/cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
/usr/bin/X11/cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.33
Error: Cannot gain SYS_RAWIO capability.Is cdrecord installed SUID root? (YES)
: Operation not permitted
/usr/bin/X11/cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (debian-0.8debian2 '@(#)scsitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 64512
/usr/bin/X11/cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code.
/usr/bin/X11/cdrecord: See /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.DVD.Debian for details on DVD support.
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 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.
TOC Type: 3 = CD-ROM XA mode 2
Using libscg version 'debian-0.8debian2'.
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'HL-DT-ST'

This is the output for a DVD session:
growisofs
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Executing 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/scd0 obs=32k seek=0'
/dev/scd0: splitting layers at 1901440 blocks
:-[ SEND DVD+R DOUBLE LAYER RECORDING INFORMATION failed with SK=7h/ASC=00h/ACQ=D0h]: Input/output error

There seem to be two devices for the one physical drive, called /dev/scd0 and /dev/sg1.