Re: Fatal error while burning CD

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Michael Lange wrote:
> cdrskin: FATAL : SCSI error on write(442,13): See MMC specs: Sense Key
> 5 "Illegal request", ASC A8 ASCQ 04

The hex number triple (5, A8, 04) is the reply of the drive to command
WRITE(10) after 34 such commands succeeded. (34 = 442 / 13. 13 is the
smallest multiple of 2352 bytes below 32 KiB.)

ASC A8 is not in the list of MMC errors. Actually there is none above 73.
Insofar your drive's firmware is creative.
The sense key 5 means that the drive accuses the burn program of doing it
wrong.

What were your exact cdrskin arguments ?
Inhowfar do they differ from those of the previously successful run ?


What does this run report about cdrskin and your drive when a blank CD-R[W]
is inserted:

  cdrskin dev=/dev/sr0 -minfo 2>&1 | tee -i /tmp/cdrskin_minfo

The line
  Drive id       : '...'
will contain the serial number of your drive. It is of no interest for our
case, so you may delete it before posting the output of about 40 lines.

If your cdrskin version is 1.5.0, can you confirm that you have installed
cdrskin_1.5.0-1+deb10u1 of 2019 and not the older 1.5.0-1 of 2018 ?


Have a nice day :)

Thomas