External cdburner not usable for burning

[Keith Evenden]

Binary package hint: k3b

Hi,

I have the latest Dapper and since upgrading from Breezy K3B has stopped recognising my external Yamaha cdburner. I execute K3B, the lights blink on the front of the cdburner and K3B doesn't launch until I turn the cdburner off. I get the same results with Arson. I'm able to mount the drive (/dev/sr0) and cdrecord -scanbus reports:

        0,0,0 0) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST34371W ' '0360' Disk
        0,1,0 1) 'YAMAHA ' 'CRW4260 ' '1.0q' Removable CD-ROM

Here is a portion of the output from dmesg:

[4294838.555000] (scsi0:A:1:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
[4294838.555000] scsi0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 1 SCBs aborted
[4294838.793000] (scsi0:A:1:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
[4294838.793000] scsi0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 1 SCBs aborted
[4294839.031000] (scsi0:A:1:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
[4294839.031000] scsi0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 1 SCBs aborted
[4294839.031000] sr 0:0:1:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x70000
[4294951.166000] (scsi0:A:1:0): Unexpected busfree while idle
[4294951.166000] SEQADDR == 0x16f
[4294951.166000] (scsi0:A:1:0): Unexpected busfree while idle
[4294951.166000] SEQADDR == 0x16f
[4294951.166000] (scsi0:A:1:0): Unexpected busfree while idle
[4294951.166000] SEQADDR == 0x16f
[4294951.167000] sr0: Hmm, seems the drive doesn't support multisession CD's
(more of the same)
[4294951.175000] SEQADDR == 0x16f
[4294951.175000] (scsi0:A:1:0): Unexpected busfree while idle
[4294951.175000] SEQADDR == 0x16f
[4294951.175000] (scsi0:A:1:0): Unexpected busfree while idle
[4294951.175000] SEQADDR == 0x16f
[4294951.175000] sr 0:0:1:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x70000
[4294951.176000] (scsi0:A:1:0): Unexpected busfree while idle
[4294951.176000] SEQADDR == 0x16f
[4294951.176000] (scsi0:A:1:0): Unexpected busfree while idle
[4294951.176000] SEQADDR == 0x16f
[4294951.176000] (scsi0:A:1:0): Unexpected busfree while idle
[4294951.176000] SEQADDR == 0x16f

And this is the output from tail /var/log/messages:

May 31 18:42:02 localhost kernel: [4296671.064000] (scsi0:A:1:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
May 31 18:42:02 localhost kernel: [4296671.064000] scsi0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 1 SCBs aborted
May 31 18:42:02 localhost kernel: [4296671.302000] (scsi0:A:1:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
May 31 18:42:02 localhost kernel: [4296671.302000] scsi0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 1 SCBs aborted
May 31 18:42:03 localhost kernel: [4296671.540000] (scsi0:A:1:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
May 31 18:42:03 localhost kernel: [4296671.540000] scsi0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 1 SCBs aborted
May 31 18:42:03 localhost kernel: [4296671.540000] sr 0:0:1:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x70000

Regards,

Keith

[Keith Evenden (kevenden)]

Upon further investigation I am able to use cdrecord to burn discs from the console.

for I in *.mp3
do
    mpg123 --cdr - "$I" | cdrecord -audio -pad -nofix -
done
cdrecord -fix

Seemed to work OK. No change with K3B.

[Keith Evenden (kevenden)]

Ran vanilla ubuntu live cdrom, cdburner was correctly detected by Serpentine. Ran vanilla kubuntu live cdrom, K3B still fails to launch while cdburner is powered up. cdrecord works fine with both live cdroms.

[Keith Evenden (kevenden)]

Latest update of K3B (0.12.17) (along with kernel 2.6.15-27) seems to have resolved the issue.