cdrecord: OPC failed.

Did you try recent update kernels and update cdrecord?

uname -a:
Linux Lserver.org 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 #1 Fri Aug 26 20:29:51 EDT 2005 i686 athlon
i386 GNU/Linux

output of cdrecord (cdrecord-2.01.1-9):
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red
Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c        1.83 04/05/20 Copyright
1997 J. Schilling').
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,5,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 5 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red
Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c        1.83 04/05/20 Copyright
1997 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 4
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : SYNC
Vendor_info    : 'HP      '
Identifikation : 'CD-Writer+ 9200 '
Revision       : '1.0c'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 4183808 = 4085 KB
Drive DMA Speed: 8135 kB/s 46x CD 5x DVD
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
  Indicated writing power: 5
  Reference speed: 2
  Is not unrestricted
  Is erasable
  ATIP start of lead in:  -11635 (97:26/65)
  ATIP start of lead out: 337350 (75:00/00)
  1T speed low:  0 (reserved val  0) 1T speed high:  4
  2T speed low:  8 2T speed high:  0 (reserved val 10)
  power mult factor: 4 6
  recommended erase/write power: 3
  A1 values: 02 4C B0
  A2 values: 4A C8 06
Disk type:    Phase change
Manuf. index: 3
Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
Speed set to 706 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed   4.0 in real BLANK mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
Performing OPC...
Blanking entire disk
cdrecord: Input/output error. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  A1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 04 08 00 80
Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x08 (logical unit not ready, long write in progress) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) operation 0% done
cmd finished after 1010.052s timeout 9600s
cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting.

FYI: I'm now running FC 4 and still have this problem.

I'm not sure if this should be a new bug or not.  Please let me know if I should
move this elsewhere.

I recently upgraded from FC1 to FC4.  CDRECORD worked fine under FC1, but now fails.

I get new error messages in dmesg that were never there before:

[russell@amadpur ~]>dmesg | grep hde:
    ide2: BM-DMA at 0xc400-0xc407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
hde: 8X4X32, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
hde: write_intr: bad interrupt reason 1
hde: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hde: drive not ready for command


A dummy test with cdrecord shows (I don't want to ruin more blanks...). In FC1
it was dev=0,1,0 , and now I have to specify dev=ATAPI:2,0,0  . If I do the
-scanbus it shows the drive at 2,0,0 but the 'sg' interface doesn't seem to work
any more (whether I load ide_scsi module or not).

[root@amadpur russell]# cdrecord -v dev=ATAPI:2,0,0 -eject -dummy -data  
/filesD/torrent/torrents/TheOpenCD-3.0.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 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: 'ATAPI:2,0,0'
devname: 'ATAPI'
scsibus: 2 target: 0 lun: 0
Use of ATA is preferred over ATAPI.
Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained.
Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow.
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info    : 'ATAPI   '
Identifikation : 'CD-R/RW 8X4X32  '
Revision       : '5.AX'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC SWABAUDIO
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO RAW/R16
Drive buf size : 1634304 = 1596 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data   596 MB
Total size:      684 MB (67:49.10) = 305183 sectors
Lout start:      684 MB (67:51/08) = 305183 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
  ATIP start of lead in:  -11634 (97:26/66)
  ATIP start of lead out: 359846 (79:59/71)
Disk type:    Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 3
Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
Blocks total: 359846 Blocks current: 359846 Blocks remaining: 54663
Speed set to 1434 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed   8.0 in dummy TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting dummy write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
trackno=0
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01:   31 of  596 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]   8.1x.cdrecord:
Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 00 3E 5D 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 38 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x38 Qual 0x00 (event status notification) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s

write track data: error after 32696320 bytes
cdrecord: A write error occured.
cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
Writing  time:   34.143s
Average write speed 119.2x.
Min drive buffer fill was 99%
Total of 1 possible drive buffer underruns predicted.
Fixating...
WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode.
Fixating time:   41.173s
cdrecord: fifo had 579 puts and 516 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 493 times full, min fill was 93%.

I've since upgraded the firmware in my ide cdrw and moved the device to a
FreeBSD 5.2 box and it works flawlessly.

If possible try seeing if there is a new firmware for the drive and upgrade the
firmware.  You may need a windows machine to do the firmware update.  I was
lucky, mine was updatable via dos.

Russell McOrmond, please use dev=/dev/hde and do not use ide-scsi emulation in
the kernel parameter. If the problems persists, then file a bug for the
component "kernel".

I'm not using ide-scsi, I have a scsi device.  Its real scsi. It used to work,
and not it does not.

Oh, I was not using ide-scsi when I filed this either.  

It may be a firmware upgrade is needed on the device though.  Not sure how Linux
handles that one.

I am wondering if the problem is really in cdrecord itself and not the kernel as
I have similar problems with my SCSI drive.  I'd love to know how to update the
firmware in my HP 9200 SCSI drive.   

Okay just ran yup update and the version of cdrecord that is installed is now
working, or seems to be working fine.  I've blanked a cd rw twice, and burned to
it once and am blanking it again.

Seems to be okay now.  

cdrecord-2.01.1-9.0.FC4.1


Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red
Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c        1.83 04/05/20 Copyright
1997 J. Schilling').
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 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,5,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 5 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red
Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c        1.83 04/05/20 Copyright
1997 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 4
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : SYNC
Vendor_info    : 'HP      '
Identifikation : 'CD-Writer+ 9200 '
Revision       : '1.0c'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 4183808 = 4085 KB
Drive DMA Speed: 8135 kB/s 46x CD 5x DVD
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data   549 MB
Total size:      631 MB (62:34.68) = 281601 sectors
Lout start:      631 MB (62:36/51) = 281601 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
  Indicated writing power: 5
  Reference speed: 2
  Is not unrestricted
  Is erasable
  ATIP start of lead in:  -11635 (97:26/65)
  ATIP start of lead out: 337350 (75:00/00)
  1T speed low:  0 (reserved val  0) 1T speed high:  4
  2T speed low:  8 2T speed high:  0 (reserved val 10)
  power mult factor: 4 6
  recommended erase/write power: 3
  A1 values: 02 4C B0
  A2 values: 4A C8 06
Disk type:    Phase change
Manuf. index: 3
Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
Blocks total: 337350 Blocks current: 337350 Blocks remaining: 55749
Speed set to 706 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed   4.0 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
trackno=0
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01:  549 of  549 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]   4.0x.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 576714752/576714752 (281599 sectors).
Writing  time:  945.074s
Average write speed   4.0x.
Min drive buffer fill was 99%
Fixating...
Fixating time:   62.207s
cdrecord: fifo had 9084 puts and 9084 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 8975 times full, min fill was 95%.

(In reply to comment #4)
> I'm not sure if this should be a new bug or not.  Please let me know if I should
> move this elsewhere.
> 
> I recently upgraded from FC1 to FC4.  CDRECORD worked fine under FC1, but now
fails.
> 
> I get new error messages in dmesg that were never there before:
> 
> [russell@amadpur ~]>dmesg | grep hde:
>     ide2: BM-DMA at 0xc400-0xc407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> hde: 8X4X32, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hde: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
> hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
> hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
> hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
> hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
> hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
> hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
> hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
> hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
> hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
> hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
> hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
> hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
> hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
> hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
> hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
> hde: write_intr: bad interrupt reason 1
> hde: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> hde: drive not ready for command
> 
> 
> A dummy test with cdrecord shows (I don't want to ruin more blanks...). In FC1
> it was dev=0,1,0 , and now I have to specify dev=ATAPI:2,0,0  . If I do the
> -scanbus it shows the drive at 2,0,0 but the 'sg' interface doesn't seem to work
> any more (whether I load ide_scsi module or not).
> 
> [root@amadpur russell]# cdrecord -v dev=ATAPI:2,0,0 -eject -dummy -data  
> /filesD/torrent/torrents/TheOpenCD-3.0.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 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg
Schilling
> Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
> Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
> Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
> Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> scsidev: 'ATAPI:2,0,0'
> devname: 'ATAPI'
> scsibus: 2 target: 0 lun: 0
> Use of ATA is preferred over ATAPI.
> Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
> Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained.
> Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow.
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> SCSI buffer size: 64512
> atapi: 1
> Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
> Version        : 0
> Response Format: 1
> Vendor_info    : 'ATAPI   '
> Identifikation : 'CD-R/RW 8X4X32  '
> Revision       : '5.AX'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
> Driver flags   : MMC SWABAUDIO
> Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO RAW/R16
> Drive buf size : 1634304 = 1596 KB
> FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
> Track 01: data   596 MB
> Total size:      684 MB (67:49.10) = 305183 sectors
> Lout start:      684 MB (67:51/08) = 305183 sectors
> Current Secsize: 2048
>   ATIP start of lead in:  -11634 (97:26/66)
>   ATIP start of lead out: 359846 (79:59/71)
> Disk type:    Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
> Manuf. index: 3
> Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
> Blocks total: 359846 Blocks current: 359846 Blocks remaining: 54663
> Speed set to 1434 KB/s
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed   8.0 in dummy TAO mode for single session.
> Last chance to quit, starting dummy write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
> Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
> trackno=0
> Starting new track at sector: 0
> Track 01:   31 of  596 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]   8.1x.cdrecord:
> Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
> CDB:  2A 00 00 00 3E 5D 00 00 1F 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 38 00 00 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x38 Qual 0x00 (event status notification) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s
> 
> write track data: error after 32696320 bytes
> cdrecord: A write error occured.
> cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
> Writing  time:   34.143s
> Average write speed 119.2x.
> Min drive buffer fill was 99%
> Total of 1 possible drive buffer underruns predicted.
> Fixating...
> WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode.
> Fixating time:   41.173s
> cdrecord: fifo had 579 puts and 516 gets.
> cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 493 times full, min fill was 93%.
> 

(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem: cdrecord fails to burn a cd but it says it
> succeded and then says it failed to burn
> 
> Performing OPC...
> cdrecord: Success. send opc: scsi sendcmd: no error
> CDB:  54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> status: 0x4 (CONDITION MET/GOOD)
> cmd finished after 60.730s timeout 60s
> cdrecord: OPC failed.
> Writing  time:   60.742s
> cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets.
> cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
> 
> 
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> 
> cdrecord-2.01.1-0.FC2.1
> [root@Lserver root]# cdrecord --version
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004
> Jörg Schilling
> Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
> Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
> Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
> Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
> this version.
> 
> 
> How reproducible:  50 / 50 I try to burn a cdrom and 50% of the time
> if fails.  Usually the cd-r is hozed and cannot be used anymore.
> 
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. make an iso with mkisofs
> 2. run cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=ATA:1,0,0 <your iso file goes here>
> 3. it fails
>   
> Actual results:
> 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 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004
> Jörg Schilling
> Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
> Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
> Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
> Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
> this version.
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> scsidev: 'ATA:1,0,0'
> devname: 'ATA'
> scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version
> (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c       
> 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
> SCSI buffer size: 64512
> atapi: -1
> Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
> Version        : 0
> Response Format: 1
> Vendor_info    : '        '
> Identifikation : 'COMBO-52X16C    '
> Revision       : '2.00'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
> Current: 0x0009
> Profile: 0x000A
> Profile: 0x0009 (current)
> Profile: 0x0008
> Profile: 0x0002 (current)
> Profile: 0x0010
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
> Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
> Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P
> RAW/R96R
> Drive buf size : 1951488 = 1905 KB
> FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
> Track 01: data    92 MB
> Total size:      106 MB (10:34.48) = 47586 sectors
> Lout start:      107 MB (10:36/36) = 47586 sectors
> Current Secsize: 2048
> ATIP info from disk:
>   Indicated writing power: 6
>   Is not unrestricted
>   Is not erasable
>   Disk sub type: Medium Type C, low Beta category (C-) (6)
>   ATIP start of lead in:  -11231 (97:32/19)
>   ATIP start of lead out: 359847 (79:59/72)
> Disk type:    Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
> Manuf. index: 27
> Manufacturer: Prodisc Technology Inc.
> Blocks total: 359847 Blocks current: 359847 Blocks remaining: 312261
> Speed set to 1410 KB/s
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed   8.0 in real TAO mode for single
> session.
> Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
> Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
> trackno=0
> BURN-Free is OFF.
> Performing OPC...
> cdrecord: Success. send opc: scsi sendcmd: no error
> CDB:  54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> status: 0x4 (CONDITION MET/GOOD)
> cmd finished after 60.730s timeout 60s
> cdrecord: OPC failed.
> Writing  time:   60.742s
> cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets.
> cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
> 
> 
> Expected results:
> 
> First I wonder why it is saying it is wrinting in 8x mode when I
> specify 2x.  Next I don't expect it ti fail this often.  Its a fairly
> new cdrw.
> 
> Additional info:
> a clip from dmesg if this helps?
> 
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> idebus=xx
> VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
> VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
> VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hda: WDC WD300BB-32AUA1, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> hdc: COMBO-52X16C, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: max request size: 128KiB
> hda: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=58168/16/63,
> UDMA(100)
>  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 >
> hdc: ATAPI 52X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)

The author in his website says that cdrecord 2.x works well with kernel 2.4 but
needs real root login with kernel 2.6.  I tried that and received no error
message; the writing process took much shorter than usual.  However, nothing
could be read from the written DVD.

I always buen my CDROMS as root.  There is / was a bug in cdrecord that ships
with fedora, and the latest update seems to have fixed it.  

The cdrecord web site also says don't contact him about problems in fc / rh
because they ship an unoffical version of the software that may not work.  

Reporter said this was fixed in an update.  Closing