CD-RW disks

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Collins wrote:
> I've been using the CD writer drive that came with my HP pc for a
> couple of years to write CD-R disks with no problems.  It's a TEAC unit
> according to scanbus, i.e.
>
>         0,0,0     0) 'TEAC   ' 'CD-W54E ' '1.1C' Removable CD-ROM
>
> Now I'm trying to use the few CD-RW disks (TDK 4x to 10x capable) which
> came with the computer, and I'm getting errors.  'cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0
> speed=4 isofs' (made with mkisofs) produces:
>
>
> cdrecord: Input/output error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: no error
> CDB:  00 00 00 00 00 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 3A 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x3A Qual 0x00 (medium not present) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s
> cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk!
>
> No joy with ... blank .... or ... blank --force ... either.
>
> Same results with 3 never-used CD_RW blanks (never used)

So this is only occuring with the TDK disks that came with the drive?
cdrecord seems to think that there's no disk in the drive, or that the
disks aren't valid for writing.  Seems like they're crappy disks, assuming
that others work fine.

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