Trouble burning in nautilus CD/DVD creator. cdrecord works ok.

[Thrift]

When trying to burn a CD in the nautilus CD/DVD creator I am experiencing an
error where it asks me
"please put a blank disc, with at least xxx MiB free into the drive. Retrying
leaves me the same error.

I can burn cds with cdrecord, although it's more complex than it used to be for me:

--SNIP--
thrift@Io:~$ cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrw speed=24 sles9cd1.iso
cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a38 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Joerg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an unofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
      and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
      Please send bug reports and support requests to
<email address hidden>.
      The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.

cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.10-5-k7
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority().
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
scsidev: '/dev/cdrw'
devname: '/dev/cdrw'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1'.
cdrecord: Warning: using unofficial version of libscg (ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1
'@(#)scsitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling').
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'GENERIC '
Identifikation : 'CRD-BP1500P '
Revision : '6.34'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO RAW/R96R
cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority().
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
cdrecord: DMA speed too slow (OK for 19x). Cannot write at speed 24x.
cdrecord: Max DMA data speed is 19.
cdrecord: Try to use 'driveropts=burnfree'.
--SNIP--

that doesn't seem to burn for me, but it works fine if I change speed=24 to
speed=19...this is a 24x burner.

--snip--
thrift@Io:~$ cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrw speed=19 sles9cd1.iso
cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a38 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Joerg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an unofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
      and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
      Please send bug reports and support requests to
<email address hidden>.
      The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.

cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.10-5-k7
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority().
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
scsidev: '/dev/cdrw'
devname: '/dev/cdrw'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1'.
cdrecord: Warning: using unofficial version of libscg (ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1
'@(#)scsitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling').
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'GENERIC '
Identifikation : 'CRD-BP1500P '
Revision : '6.34'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO RAW/R96R
cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority().
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 16 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 278280192/278280192 (135879 sectors).
thrift@Io:~$
--snip--

lowering the speed in the nautlis CD/DVD Creator doesn't help.

as an aside, this burner used to work fine in 24x mode. don't know if it's the
cable or the kernel or what that has
made the change.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you use hoary? can you run
http://people.ubuntu.com/~seb128/hoary_dbgdebs/ncb/list_cddrives and copy that here?

[Thrift (thrift24)]

I do run Hoary. I appear to be up to date. I checked the problem again just
now to make sure it is still occuring and it is.

--snip--

thrift@Io:~$ ./list_cddrives
name: GENERIC CRD-BP1500P device: /dev/hdc max_speed_read: 40
type: CD Recorder/CD Drive
media type: Unknown Media (blank)
media size: -0.00 MiB
CD-Recorder/SCSI devices only: max_speed_write: 24 id: /dev/hdc

name: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-106S 012 device: /dev/hdd max_speed_read: 40
type: CD Drive/DVD Drive
media type: Couldn't open media
media size: -0.00 MiB
CD-Recorder/SCSI devices only: max_speed_write: 0 id: /dev/hdd

thrift@Io:~$
--snip--

Thanks much,
Dan Oliver

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

can you attach the output of lshal to the bug?

[Thrift (thrift24)]

Created an attachment (id=2228)
lshal output

Here is the lshal output.

Thanks,
Dan Oliver

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thanks, that's an hal issue duplicate of bug #14840

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14840.