CD Burn Trouble revisited

[Kendric Beachey]

I too am experiencing the same trouble burning CDs, getting errors from 
cdrecord such as the following...

Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info    : 'YAMAHA  '
Identifikation : 'CRW8824E        '
Revision       : '1.00'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO
Drive buf size : 3172848 = 3098 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data  552 MB         padsize:  30 KB
Lout start:     634 MB (62:53/44) = 282869 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
  Indicated writing power: 4
  Is not unrestricted
  Is not erasable
  Disk sub type: Medium Type A, high Beta category (A+) (3)
  ATIP start of lead in:  -11079 (97:34/21)
  ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
Disk type:    Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar)
Manuf. index: 11
Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 76980
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy mode for single session.
 Track 01:   0 of 552 MB written. Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 
00 00 21 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x00 (logical block address out of range) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)

write track data: error after 18665472 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Writing  time:   42.091s
WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 358 puts and 295 gets.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 157 times full, min fill was 
93%.

The part about block 0 not being valid led me to try a different CD, figuring 
the one I was using was just faulty, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

This CD-RW drive has successfully burned before, under that other operating 
system though.

Has anyone made any headway on this issue?

-- 
Kendric Beachey
ak at kc.rr.com