Re: Cannot write a 90' cd

From: Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 17:57:54 EST


On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:15:07AM +0200, Jorge Nerin wrote:
> Hello, I tried with kernels 2.5.16, 2.5.15 and 2.4.18 with a ide cdburner:
>
> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
> Vendor: SAMSUNG Model: CD-R/RW SW-208B Rev: BS03
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
> with cdrecord --version
> Cdrecord 1.11a19 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
> but it's a 1.11a21, and a 2x200mmx 96Mb. and the results were rather disapointing:
>
> - 2.5.15 & 2.5.16 both hung my machine the moment cdrecord tried to write.
> - 2.4.18 wrote ok, until 702MB, then a scsi stopped the procces, detailed log of
> the cdrecord session follows:
> Note that this was a traxdata 90' silver cd, in the instructions they said that
> it will be detected as a 80' and that you should enable overburnung, cdrecord
> without options said that -overburn should be active, this session is with
> -overburn active.
>
> I don't have more 90' cd to try. I only managed to get one.

90 minute CD-Rs have a tighter leading track, and only some CD-R drives
are able to cope with that. For example my Ricoh doesn't, failing some
54 minutes after start. There is nothing you can do about that.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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