IDE cd burner acting flakey w/cdrecord

[Robert <flea@pobox.com>]

First the most commonly asked for info:
Linux timberwolf 2.4.18 #1 SMP Sun May 5 19:12:29 CDT 2002 i686 unknown
(also used debian package: kernel-image-2.4.18-smp with same problems)
Relevant modules loaded: sr_mod sd_mod ide-scsi sg scsi_mod
Platform: dual-processor athalon (400Mhz)
Debian distribution: testing

cdrecord -scanbus output:
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
scsibus0:
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
        0,0,0     0) 'ATAPI-CD' 'ROM-DRIVE-50MAX ' '50LT' Removable CD-ROM
        0,1,0     1) 'HP      ' 'CD-Writer+ 7200 ' '3.01' Removable CD-ROM
        0,2,0     2) *
...etc...


First, is the warning relevant?  I don't recall it being there, but I might 
have been overlooking it for quite a while.

Second, the real problem is that for a long while now, I've not been able to 
burn CDs.  I can't give examples of the exact error at the moment (not at 
home ATM), but sometimes (rarely) I can get it to do a dummy run.  Most of 
the time, it never starts "writing", but instead just gives ... checksum? ... 
errors and fails out.  Non-dummy runs work out the same, sometimes giving me 
coasters, sometmes not...

Does anyone have any good starting points for tracking this issue down?  I 
can't go back to the 2.2 series kernels, as I'm using too many 2.4 features 
that I just don't have the will to give up now.

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