From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 23 16: 9:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2767D37B41E for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:09:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g0O08nO79443; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:08:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:08:49 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Thierry Herbelot Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suspected dying CD-writer ? Message-ID: <20020123170849.A79273@panzer.kdm.org> References: <3C4F3810.1232A5BF@herbelot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3C4F3810.1232A5BF@herbelot.com>; from thierry@herbelot.com on Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:24:16PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 23:24:16 +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Hello, > > I've got an SCSI CD-Writer, which only gives errors when I try to use > cd-record (see full log at the end of the message) > > As the problem is identical on a fresh 4.4-Rel (with cd-record installed > from the CD as a binary package) and a recently updated 4.5-RC, there is > strong suspicion the drive itself is dying. > > can anyone decode the ASCII dump of the SCSI error message ? > > (I've also cleaned the optics, in case there was too much dust, but no > joy) > > time to buy a new Yamaha 2100S ? > > TfH > > # cdrecord -v dev=0,2,0 speed=1 blank=fast The error below is an illegal/invalid opcode. It doesn't really indicate a failing drive, as far as I can tell. > cdrecord: Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper status. > ATIP start of lead out: 1166730 (03:18/30) > Blocks total: 1166730 Blocks current: 1166730 Blocks remaining: 1166880 > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in write mode for single session. > Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation starts. > Blanking PMA, TOC, pregap > cdrecord: Input/output error. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: retryable error > CDB: A1 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 04 D8 20 00 00 80 00 00 01 19 > 04 00 00 00 80 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 > Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 > Sense Code: 0x20 Qual 0x00 (invalid command operation code) Fru 0x0 > Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid) error refers to data part, bit ptr 0 (not > valid) field ptr 0 > cmd finished after 5.618s timeout 9600s > cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting. I would suggest either not specifying the speed, or specify a speed that both the media and the drive can handle. Some media have a minimum speed. If that doesn't fix it, send mail describing the problem to cdwrite@other.debian.org, or Joerg Schilling directly -- schilling@fokus.gmd.de. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message