Re: burncd block size

On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 10:10:40 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no> wrote:

> I've been having a variety of problems burning CDs with atang:
>
>  - burncd consistently failing in exactly the same spot in the ISO,
>    and reporting "only wrote 0 of 32768 bytes: Unknown error: 0"
>
>  - burncd failing right at the start with "only wrote -1 of 32768
>    bytes: Input/output error" (this generally happens after a couple
>    of the previous, and once it starts happening I have to reboot)

Whew, glad that I am not only one.. I *just* have wasted two of my blank 
CD in like fifteen minutes ago, I keep wondering if I created the ISO 
files in the wrong way or was it burncd's fault.. Until now here..

I get like this:
=====================================
# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -e -s 6 data NT2004.iso fixate
next writeable LBA 0
writing from file NT2004.iso size 662576 KB
written this track 410656 KB (61%) total 410656 KB
only wrote 4096 of 32768 bytes: Unknown error: 0

fixating CD, please wait..
=====================================

I tried the another ISO and I get the same thing by stopped at 32768 bytes.

I am going to use cdrecord for now, hope it will work ok.

Cheers,
Mezz

>  - burncd getting stuck in acdcld for a long time while fixating
>
>  - a *lot* of "sensekey=ILLEGAL REQUEST error=4<ABORTED>"; fixating a
>    CD causes about half a dozen TEST_UNIT_READY failures, and I
>    occasionally get READ_BIG, START_STOP, PREVENT_ALLOW and SET_SPEED
>    failures as well, all of them with "status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
>    sensekey=ILLEGAL REQUEST error=4<ABORTED>"
>
> I've discovered that reducing the buffer size in burncd fixes at least
> the first problem, and possibly the second, but not the third.  I've
> attached a patch that adds a command-line option for that (the default
> will still be 16 blocks at a time, but you can specify anything from 1
> to 64 on the command line)
>
> The drive is an LG 8400B with which I've previously had little or no
> trouble; prior to atang, it burned CDs just fine at 40x with a failure
> rate of precisely 0.
>
> # dmesg | grep acd
> acd0: CDRW <HL-DT-ST GCE-8400B> at ata1-master WDMA2
> # atacontrol info ata1
> Master: acd0 <HL-DT-ST GCE-8400B/1.00> ATA/ATAPI rev 0
> Slave:       no device present
> # atacontrol cap ata1 0
> ATA channel 1, Master, device acd0:
>
> ATA/ATAPI revision    0
> device model          HL-DT-ST GCE-8400B
> serial number
> firmware revision     1.00
> cylinders             0
> heads                 0
> sectors/track         0
> lba supported
> lba48 not supported
> dma supported
> overlap not supported
>
> Feature                      Support  Enable    Value   Vendor
> write cache                    no       no
> read ahead                     no       no
> dma queued                     no       no      0/0x00
> SMART                          no       no
> microcode download             no       no
> security                       no       no
> power management               no       no
> advanced power management      no       no      0/0x00
> automatic acoustic management  no       no      0/0x00  0/0x00
>
> DES


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