problem burning cd,s

[earthwarrior]

Every time I try to burn a cd it fails I suspect the problem might be with the drive as I tried using several cd burning progams on 8.04 and 8.10 and even tried the drive on windows. I can read cd's and boot from the drive and it passed all the dell diagnostic tests but burnuing always fails. The drive is the original drive from my dell dimension 4700, sony cd-r/rw drive model no. crx216e-ds manufactured Jan 2005.

I am pasting the brasero message log below
Do I need to replace th drive or is there something else I could to to get it working?

Checking session consistency (brasero_burn_check_session_consistency burn.c:1843)
BraseroLocalTrack called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroLocalTrack called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroLocalTrack called brasero_job_set_output_size_for_current_track
BraseroLocalTrack stopping
BraseroLocalTrack called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroLocalTrack output set (IMAGE) image = /tmp/brasero_tmp_CQPZPU toc = nil
BraseroLocalTrack called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroLocalTrack called brasero_job_get_current_track
BraseroLocalTrack called brasero_job_get_input_type
BraseroLocalTrack no foreign URIs
BraseroLocalTrack stopping
BraseroChecksumImage called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroChecksumImage called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroChecksumImage called brasero_job_get_fd_in
BraseroChecksumImage called brasero_job_set_output_size_for_current_track
BraseroChecksumImage stopping
BraseroChecksumImage called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroChecksumImage output set (IMAGE) image = /tmp/brasero_tmp_V0OZPU toc = nil
BraseroChecksumImage called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroChecksumImage called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroChecksumImage called brasero_job_get_input_type
BraseroChecksumImage called brasero_job_set_current_action
BraseroChecksumImage called brasero_job_start_progress
BraseroChecksumImage called brasero_job_get_fd_in
BraseroChecksumImage called brasero_job_get_current_track
BraseroChecksumImage called brasero_job_get_current_track
BraseroChecksumImage Starting checksuming file /home/river/ubuntu-8.04.2-alternate-i386.iso (size = 729440256)
BraseroChecksumImage called brasero_job_get_fd_out
BraseroChecksumImage Called brasero_job_set_progress (0.162217)
BraseroChecksumImage Called brasero_job_set_progress (0.347009)
BraseroChecksumImage Called brasero_job_set_progress (0.525752)
BraseroChecksumImage Called brasero_job_set_progress (0.721062)
BraseroChecksumImage Called brasero_job_set_progress (0.917211)
BraseroChecksumImage called brasero_job_get_current_track
BraseroChecksumImage setting new checksum (type = 0) fa027fc04c5ff82a8c81b8ffd04d8eb5 ( before)
BraseroChecksumImage finished track successfully
BraseroChecksumImage stopping
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroWodim getting varg
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroWodim got varg:
BraseroWodim deactivating
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroWodim getting varg
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_device
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_speed
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_input_type
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_fd_in
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_current_track
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_set_current_action
BraseroWodim got varg:
wodim
-v
dev=/dev/scd0
speed=47
driveropts=burnfree
fs=16m
-data
-nopad
/home/river/ubuntu-8.04.2-alternate-i386.iso
BraseroWodim launching command
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_fd_out
BraseroWodim stderr: wodim: No write mode specified.
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: wodim: Asuming -tao mode.
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults.
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: wodim: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits.scsidev: '/dev/scd0'
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: devname: '/dev/scd0'
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: Wodim version: 1.1.8
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: SCSI buffer size: 64512
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: communication breaks or freezes immediately after that.
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stdout: TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
BraseroWodim stderr: Speed set to 7056 KB/s
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stdout: Driveropts: 'burnfree'
BraseroWodim stdout: Device type : Removable CD-ROM
BraseroWodim stdout: Version : 5
BraseroWodim stdout: Response Format: 2
BraseroWodim stdout: Capabilities :
BraseroWodim stdout: Vendor_info : 'SONY '
BraseroWodim stdout: Identification : 'CD-RW CRX216E '
BraseroWodim stdout: Revision : 'PD03'
BraseroWodim stdout: Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
BraseroWodim stdout: Current: 0x0009 (CD-R)
BraseroWodim stdout: Profile: 0x000A (CD-RW)
BraseroWodim stdout: Profile: 0x0009 (CD-R) (current)
BraseroWodim stdout: Profile: 0x0008 (CD-ROM)
BraseroWodim stdout: Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
BraseroWodim stdout: Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED
BraseroWodim stdout: Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
BraseroWodim stdout: Drive buf size : 1895168 = 1850 KB
BraseroWodim stdout: FIFO size : 16777216 = 16384 KB
BraseroWodim stdout: Track 01: data 695 MB
BraseroWodim stdout: Total size: 798 MB (79:08.98) = 356174 sectors
BraseroWodim stdout: Lout start: 799 MB (79:10/74) = 356174 sectors
BraseroWodim stdout: Current Secsize: 2048
BraseroWodim stdout: ATIP info from disk:
BraseroWodim stdout: Indicated writing power: 5
BraseroWodim stdout: Is not unrestricted
BraseroWodim stdout: Is not erasable
BraseroWodim stdout: Disk sub type: Medium Type A, high Beta category (A+) (3)
BraseroWodim stdout: ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66)
BraseroWodim stdout: ATIP start of lead out: 359846 (79:59/71)
BraseroWodim stdout: Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
BraseroWodim stdout: Manuf. index: 3
BraseroWodim stdout: Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
BraseroWodim stdout: Blocks total: 359846 Blocks current: 359846 Blocks remaining: 3672
BraseroWodim stdout: Forcespeed is OFF.
BraseroWodim stdout: Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 40.0 in real TAO mode for single session.
BraseroWodim stdout: Last chance to quit, starting real write in 4 seconds.
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_set_dangerous
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 3 seconds.
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 2 seconds.
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 
BraseroWodim stdout: 1 seconds. 0 seconds. Operation starts.
BraseroWodim stdout: Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
BraseroWodim stdout: Performing OPC...
BraseroWodim stderr: Errno: 5 (Input/output error), send opc scsi sendcmd: no error
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: CDB: 54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stdout: Writing time: 71.955s
BraseroWodim stderr: status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stdout: BURN-Free was never needed.
BraseroWodim stderr: Sense Bytes: 72 0B 00 00 00 00 00 0E 09 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stdout: HUP
BraseroWodim stderr: Sense Key: 0x0 No Additional Sense, Segment 11
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: Sense Code: 0x00 Qual 0x00 (no additional sense information) Fru 0x0
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: cmd finished after 71.924s timeout 60s
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: wodim: OPC failed.
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: wodim: fifo had 255 puts and 0 gets.
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroWodim stderr: HUP
BraseroWodim process finished with status 255
BraseroWodim called brasero_job_error
BraseroWodim finished with an error
BraseroWodim asked to stop because of an error
error = 0
message = "no message"
BraseroWodim stopping
BraseroWodim got killed
Session error : unknown (brasero_burn_record burn.c:2527)

[dstew]

My guess is that it's a hardware problem. It could also be the burn speed. You should always burn an image at a very slow speed, no more than 4x. It looks like you are trying to burn at 40x.

Sometimes, all you have to do is clean the lens of the laser in the burner.