[Debburn-devel] Wodim stops writing before done, tells me to report.

[Martin Brandenburg]

Hello. I was burning the ArchLinux i686 core ISO image, and I got the following error message instructing me to report the error. I was using a tty, and could only take a picture with my camera, so some output on the right may be missing.

$ wodim -vvvv archlinux-2008.06-core-i686.iso
...
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 252 of 290 MB written (fifo  12%) [buf  99%]  25.  [screenshot clipped here]
CDB: 2A 00 00 01 F8 1D 00 00 1F 00
status 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 71 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, deferred error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming)
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 6.811s timeout 40s

write track data: error after 264300544 bytes
wodim: The current problem looks like a buffer underrun.
wodim: It looks like 'driverops=burnfree' does not work for   [screenshot clipped]
wodim: Please report.
wodim: Make sure that you are root, enable DMA and check your[screenshot clipped]
Writing  time:  100.849s
Average write speed  26.2x.
Min drive buffer fill was 14%
Fixating...
Fixating time:   27.999s
BURN-Free was never needed.
wodim: fifo had 4227 puts and 4164 gets.
wodim: fifo was 21 times empty and 1396 times full, min fill [screenshot clipped]

I don't know of any more information to provide, so just ask for more if needed.

- Martin Brandenburg <martin.brandenburg at zenbe.com>