Re: Error msg.

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

"Craig Harding" <craigwharding@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm tring to write an iso file to a blank'ed dvd-rw disc and I got this
> error. I know that the error msg speaks for itself (medium error), but just
> wondering if it could actually be something else besides my dvd as I've used
> this disc a few times already. It was burning for about 10-15 minutes before
> it timed out. Any help appreciated, thanks.

Without knowing about the drive and the media, it is hard to say something
useful.

Usually the cdrecord -v output includes the inquiry data and you may get
the media type information with cdrecord -atip.

The current state of the media is pronted via cdrecord -minfo


> cdrecord version: 2.01.01a16

This is a very old version ( > 6 months).
Check for a recent version 

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/

although this is not related to your problem.



> There are two bunches of output below. I notice that it's failing around the
> same area (2.9GB) on two different discs. I remember reading about a size
> limit with writing data  to a cd/dvd...
>
> Any help appreciated..
>
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in real SAO mode for single session.
> Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
> cdrecord: Success. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
> CDB:  2A 00 00 15 BF 68 00 00 1F 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 71 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, deferred error, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> resid: 63488
> cmd finished after 0.043s timeout 100s
> write track data: error after 2918924288 bytes
> cdrecord: A write error occured.
> cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.

This may have any reason including a fingerprint....

Jörg

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