admin:~ # /usr/bin/cdrecord -v dev=14,0,0 speed=16 -eject -data /home/radium/Downloads/isos/LinuxMint-3.0.iso This is wodim, not cdrecord. Don't expect it to behave like cdrecord in any way, don't refer to it as "cdrecord". Send problem reports to debburn-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, don't bother Joerg Schilling with any problems caused by this application. Copyright (C) 2006 cdrkit maintainers, (C) 1994-2006 Joerg Schilling /usr/bin/cdrecord: No write mode specified. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '14,0,0' scsibus: 14 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34 Using libscg version 'debburn project-0.8ubuntu1+debburn1'. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (debburn project-0.8ubuntu1+debburn1 '@(#)scsitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling'). /usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (cdrkit-team-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.86 '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.86 05/11/22 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'HL-DT-ST' Identifikation : 'DVDRAM GSA-E40L ' Revision : 'SE01' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Current: 0x0009 Profile: 0x0012 Profile: 0x0011 Profile: 0x0015 Profile: 0x0016 Profile: 0x0014 Profile: 0x0013 Profile: 0x001A Profile: 0x001B Profile: 0x002B Profile: 0x0010 Profile: 0x0009 Profile: 0x000A Profile: 0x0008 (current) Profile: 0x0002 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 : 1053696 = 1029 KB Drive DMA Speed: 6215 kB/s 35x CD 4x DVD FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 697 MB Total size: 800 MB (79:18.21) = 356866 sectors Lout start: 800 MB (79:20/16) = 356866 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 4 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type C, low Beta category (C-) (6) ATIP start of lead in: -11559 (97:27/66) ATIP start of lead out: 359846 (79:59/71) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 21 Manufacturer: Ricoh Company Limited Trying to clear drive status. Speed set to 7057 KB/s /usr/bin/cdrecord: Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper status. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot get next writable address for 'invisible' track. /usr/bin/cdrecord: This means that we are checking recorded media. /usr/bin/cdrecord: This media cannot be written in streaming mode anymore. /usr/bin/cdrecord: If you like to write to 'preformatted' RW media, try to blank the media first. /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: Data may not fit on standard 74min disk. Speed set to 2822 KB/s Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 16.0 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. BURN-Free is ON. Turning BURN-Free off Performing OPC... /usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. read track info: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 52 01 00 00 00 FF 00 00 1C 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 52 FF 00 80 24 00 00 C0 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) error refers to command part, bit ptr 0 (not valid) field ptr 0 resid: 28 cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 240s /usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot get next writable address for 'invisible' track. /usr/bin/cdrecord: This means that we are checking recorded media. /usr/bin/cdrecord: This media cannot be written in streaming mode anymore. /usr/bin/cdrecord: If you like to write to 'preformatted' RW media, try to blank the media first. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot get next writable address. Writing time: 0.066s Average write speed 999.0x. Fixating... /usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 5B 00 00 80 30 05 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium - incompatible format) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 480s cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 480s /usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot fixate disk. Fixating time: 0.005s admin:~ #