Yo ppl,

I'm having a little problem with my cd burner - obviously it died. At least
its error messages make me think so, just wanted to ask whether someone here
could enlighten me with a possible reason, maybe it's something I still can
fix without buying a new burner.

This is what cdrecord says:

scsidev: '/dev/cd0d'
devname: '/dev/cd0d'
(...)
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in real SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 9 (...) 0 seconds.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
Performing OPC...
Sending CUE sheet...
cdrecord: CUE sheet not accepted. Retrying with minimum pregapsize = 1.
cdrecord: Input/output error. send_cue_sheet: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB:  5D 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 88 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x88 Qual 0x01 (vendor unique sense code 0x88) [No matching qualifier] Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
resid: 32
cmd finished after 0.235s timeout 200s
cdrecord: Cannot send CUE sheet.
cdrecord: Could not write Lead-in.
Writing  time:    2.443s
cdrecord: fifo had 68 puts and 0 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.

it says similarly for CDs of other manufacturers either so ... Hoping someone
can enlighten me what's wrong with it.

Tia,

-Martin Weber