I am trying to burn CDs in K3b, Brassero and Graveman but they all fail. K3B which I have used for some time without trouble fails after 3% of the burn process with a unknown 255 cdrecord error or an error suggesting burning using TAO, which fails as well.
I tried installing cdrtools but this reports an error that it needs cdrecord. cdrecord is installed version 2.01.01a03-dvd.
Wodim is version 1.1.7.1
are there any known bugs or fixes for this problem. thanks for any help.
Sounds suspiciously like a hardware issue, have you used the hardware with another OS?
Check this:
Flash, k3b, Amarok - Install Guide - openSUSE Forums
Set burn speed to as low as possible.
No I only run OpenSuse on my maching, it will read CDs ok and will write to DVDs. I have in the past been able to burn CDs on this machine with this distro and am wondering if it could be an update that has caused the problem but have no idea when the problem started. I’ve tried lower burn speeds but no luck.
It does sound like a hardware problem but is perhaps not if it writes to dvd. Might be worth updating k3b to the latest version from the packman website:-
PackMan :: Package details for k3b
or if you are using kde4
PackMan :: Package details for kde4-k3b
You should also install the codec rpm as well.
Try downloading a trial copy of Nero Linux and see how that works. I use it and I like the encoding part really well. I still use K3B but I have had good luck with Nero even if I had to pay for it. Try using a different CD burner and see if it is a hardware problem.
I’ve updated the software but still getting a 254 cdrecord error. A while ago I was gettting a permissions error with K3B, until I changed the permissions of the DVD drive then I got the error 254 error message, I’ve added the debug output of K3B in case there is anything obvious I’ve missed:
K3b Version: 1.0.5
MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-841S 1.60 (/dev/sr0, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL] [DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, Restricted Overwrite]
mkisofs print size result: 282970 (579522560 bytes)
Pipe throughput: 40112128 bytes read, 40107776 bytes written.
mkisofs: 1.1.7.1
cdrecord: 1.1.7.1
scsidev: ‘/dev/sr0’
devname: ‘/dev/sr0’
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Wodim version: 1.1.7.1
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device
communication breaks or freezes immediately after that.
TOC Type: 3 = CD-ROM XA mode 2
Driveropts: ‘burnfree’
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : ‘MAT****A’
Identification : 'DVD-RAM UJ-841S ’
Revision : ‘1.60’
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: 0x0009 (CD-R)
Profile: 0x0012 (DVD-RAM)
Profile: 0x002B (DVD+R/DL)
Profile: 0x001B (DVD+R)
Profile: 0x001A (DVD+RW)
Profile: 0x0015 (DVD-R/DL sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0013 (DVD-RW restricted overwrite)
Profile: 0x0014 (DVD-RW sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0010 (DVD-ROM)
Profile: 0x000A (CD-RW)
Profile: 0x0009 (CD-R) (current)
Profile: 0x0008 (CD-ROM)
Profile: 0x0002 (Removable disk)
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 1310720 = 1280 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Speed set to 4234 KB/s
Track 01: data 552 MB
Total size: 634 MB (62:52.96) = 282972 sectors
Lout start: 635 MB (62:54/72) = 282972 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 5
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
Disk sub type: Medium Type B, low Beta category (B-) (4)
ATIP start of lead in: -11607 (97:27/18)
ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 18
Manufacturer: Plasmon Data systems Ltd.
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 76877
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 24.0 in real TAO mode for multi session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 2 seconds.
1 seconds.
0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer … input buffer ready.
Performing OPC…
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 0 of 552 MB written.
Track 01: 1 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 5.1x.
Track 01: 2 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 8.2x.
Track 01: 3 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 8.5x.
Track 01: 4 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 8.2x.
Track 01: 5 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 8.5x.
Track 01: 6 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 8.2x.
Track 01: 7 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 8.5x.
Track 01: 8 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 8.2x.
Track 01: 9 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 8.4x.
Track 01: 10 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 8.2x.
Track 01: 11 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 8.4x.
Track 01: 12 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 8.1x.
Track 01: 13 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 8.4x.
Track 01: 14 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 8.1x.
Track 01: 15 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 8.4x.
Track 01: 16 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 8.1x.
Track 01: 17 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 8.4x.
Track 01: 18 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 8.1x.
Track 01: 19 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 8.4x.
Track 01: 20 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 8.1x.
Track 01: 21 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 8.3x.
Track 01: 22 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 8.1x.
Track 01: 23 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 8.3x.
Track 01: 24 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 97%] 8.0x.
Track 01: 25 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 97%] 8.3x.
Track 01: 26 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 97%] 8.0x.
Track 01: 27 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 97%] 8.3x.
Track 01: 28 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 97%] 8.0x.
Track 01: 29 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 97%] 8.3x.
Track 01: 30 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 8.2x.
Track 01: 31 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 8.3x.
Track 01: 32 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 8.0x.
Track 01: 33 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 8.2x.
Track 01: 34 of 552 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 8.5x.
Errno: 5 (Input/output error), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 44 A9 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F1 00 03 00 00 42 36 0A 00 2B 00 00 0C 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, deferred error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 16950 (valid)
cmd finished after 6.955s timeout 40s
/usr/bin/X11/wodim: A write error occured.
/usr/bin/X11/wodim: Please properly read the error message above.
write track data: error after 35997696 bytes
Writing time: 50.721s
Average write speed 90.3x.
Min drive buffer fill was 97%
Fixating…
Fixating time: 37.452s
/usr/bin/X11/wodim: fifo had 631 puts and 568 gets.
/usr/bin/X11/wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 553 times full, min fill was 89%.
BURN-Free was never needed.
/usr/bin/X11/wodim -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/sr0 speed=24 -tao driveropts=burnfree -eject -multi -xa -tsize=282970s -
282970
I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
Using LIONEL_AND_PHYLIS_DAVEY000.BMP;1 for geneology/davey side/family photos and funeral cards/Lionel-and-Phylis Davey.BMP (Lionel and Phylis Davey.BMP)
Using THOMAS_AND_ALICE_DAVEYS_000.BMP;1 for geneology/davey side/thomas and alice Davey marriage cert/Thomas and Alice Daveys marriage0001.BMP (Thomas and Alice Daveys marriage.BMP)
Using MARY_HARDING_VINNICOMBE000.JPG;1 for geneology/photos for gramps/mary_harding-vinnicombe.jpg (mary harding-vinnicombe.jpg)
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/usr/bin/X11/genisoimage -gui -graft-points -print-size -quiet -volid e-books -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2006 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher -preparer -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-terry/k3bXvLx4b.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-terry/k3bN9pRsc.tmp -joliet -joliet-long -hide-joliet-list /tmp/kde-terry/k3bNhVouc.tmp -no-cache-inodes -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-terry/k3bC5ggRb.tmp
/usr/bin/X11/genisoimage -gui -graft-points -volid e-books -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2006 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher -preparer -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-terry/k3b3iGrLa.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-terry/k3brRZ5ja.tmp -joliet -joliet-long -hide-joliet-list /tmp/kde-terry/k3b4JKaZa.tmp -no-cache-inodes -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-terry/k3bpQ4PJb.tmp
Have you tried a different make of CD’s. You say DVD’s are OK. So I just got to thinking, maybe the CD’s are crumby.
Post the result of:
rpm -qi k3b k3b-codecs
I tried a Verbatim 4x CD-RW which was successfull this morning so I’ll check out some other makes.
The ones I was using which failed were a Kodak 52x CD-R and a cheap 52X from the supermarket, perhaps it’s speed related as well, I’ll try some diffent makes and speeds.
Here’s the result of rpm -qi k3b k3b-codecs
Name : k3b Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 1.0.5 Vendor: packman.links2linux.de
Release : 0.pm.7 Build Date: Tue 23 Dec 2008 13:46:07 GMT
Install Date: Wed 27 May 2009 18:42:37 BST Build Host: pmbs
Group : Productivity/Multimedia/CD/Record Source RPM: k3b-1.0.5-0.pm.7.src.rpm
Size : 11719600 License: GPL v2 or later
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 23 Dec 2008 13:46:24 GMT, Key ID f899f20d9a795806
Packager : Detlef Reichelt <detlef@links2linux.de>
URL : K3b - The CD Kreator
Summary : Universal CD and DVD Burning Application
Description :
This package extends the opensuse package by some codecs.
K3b is a CD burning application that supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3 audio
files, DVD burning, CDDB, and much more.
Sebastian Trueg <trueg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Thomas Froescher <tfroescher@gmx.de>
Distribution: openSUSE 11.0 (i586)
Name : k3b-codecs Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 1.0.5 Vendor: packman.links2linux.de
Release : 0.pm.7 Build Date: Tue 23 Dec 2008 13:46:07 GMT
Install Date: Wed 27 May 2009 18:42:51 BST Build Host: pmbs
Group : Productivity/Multimedia/CD/Record Source RPM: k3b-1.0.5-0.pm.7.src.rpm
Size : 176943 License: GPL v2 or later
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 23 Dec 2008 13:46:24 GMT, Key ID f899f20d9a795806
Packager : Detlef Reichelt <detlef@links2linux.de>
URL : K3b - The CD Kreator
Summary : MP3 Encoding and Video Decoding/Encoding Plugins
Description :
Some codecs, which are not provided by the openSUSE buildservice.
One may install the buildservice k3b package and add this codecs package.
K3b can be used to create mp3 files from audio CDs with this plugin. It
can also convert video codecs via ffmpeg.
Sebastian Trueg <trueg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Thomas Froescher <tfroescher@gmx.de>
Distribution: openSUSE 11.0 (i586)
Good you have Packman’s
let us know how you get on
It’s still a bit flakey. I seem to have most luck with CD-RWs, I can write to these which have a burn speed of 4x but an audio burn won’t play on my computer but will on my car CD player. Any of the write only disks I’ve tried (2 makes as in my previous post) have failed, the kodak disk with an error of “unable to fix disk” the cheap ones fail to burn altogether. The lowest speed that K3B will let me write to these is 8x.
I’ll pick up some good quality write only disks at the weekend to see if it’s any better with these. I haven’t had any trouble even with the cheapest disks in the past though.
Still no good, K3B just won’t burn CDRs. I did burn a CDR using Webmin succesfully which will read on another machine (desktop), but not on the laptop I burned it on, the inserted burnt disk shows as a blank CDR.
I don’t think that there is anything wrong with the hardware as the drive reads any data disk I put in and seems to burn ok with webmin. Not sure which way to look next.
I have been having issues with this myself.
Burner works perfectly but burning disks it craps out.
I think cdrecord is bugged