Re: Cannot write a 90' cd

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

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.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs