[CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Dec 26 02:59:49 UTC 2007


Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>>> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Frank Cox wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:37:32 -0500
>>>>> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Get some canned air and blow the dirt off of the sensor in the drive.
>>>> No change.
>>>>
>>>> The drive is the coffee mug tray style. so even opening the plastic 
>>>> housing for the drive does not let me 'see' the sensor, but I used 
>>>> a lot of canned air and no change in behaviour....
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps I have to go out to the drug store and buy one of those 
>>>> drive lens cleaner disks?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Have you tried removing/reseating the data cable on both ends? 
>> USB. I thought I mentioned that....
>>
>>> I've seen this work a handful of times. Also, SCSI or other? If 
>>> SCSI, is it properly terminated, and with the correct ID? I once 
>>> replaced a SCSI hard drive, and due to some technical change that 
>>> completely baffled me, using the same cable, and ensuring IDs were 
>>> all correct (unchanged), could not get the system to properly boot? 
>>> In the end, a colleague with similar knowledge ended up relocating 
>>> the SCSI terminator on the cable itself. No reason why it needed to 
>>> be relocated, but that solved the problem.
>> Yeah if those SCSI terminators get a little dirty ;)
>>> Try cabling and see what happens... 
>>
>> Using 2.0 cables. Of course the server is an old Compaq SFF that only 
>> supports USB 1.1
>
> What do the logs say about any possible USB errors? How about tail -f 
> path_to_log_file and unplugged/replugging to see what the active 
> messages are?
>
Dec 25 20:46:02 onlo kernel: usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using 
uhci_hcd and address 2
Dec 25 20:46:02 onlo kernel: usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using 
uhci_hcd and address 2
Dec 25 20:46:03 onlo kernel: sr 0:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Dec 25 20:46:03 onlo kernel: sr 0:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
Dec 25 21:53:01 onlo kernel: sr 0:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device

I terminated k3b at this point and unplugged and plugged in the usb 
cable to the drive:

Dec 25 21:54:07 onlo kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2
Dec 25 21:54:28 onlo kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using 
uhci_hcd and address 3
Dec 25 21:54:28 onlo kernel: usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Dec 25 21:54:32 onlo kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage 
devices
Dec 25 21:54:37 onlo kernel: Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 8200f Rev: 1.0A
Dec 25 21:54:37 onlo kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Dec 25 21:54:37 onlo kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw 
xa/form2 cdda tray
Dec 25 21:54:37 onlo kernel: sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5





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