Is the CD-RW coming to the end of its life?

**satimis** · 11-05-2005

Hi folks,

On running
# cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 blank=all -v -eject

to blank a CD-RW following warning prompted at the end:

Code:

...
......
Blanking entire disk
cdrecord&#58; Success. blank unit&#58; scsi sendcmd&#58; no error
CDB&#58;  A1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status&#58; 0x2 &#40;CHECK CONDITION&#41;
Sense Bytes&#58; 70 00 04 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 09 02 00 00
Sense Key&#58; 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment 0
Sense Code&#58; 0x09 Qual 0x02 &#40;focus servo failure&#41; Fru 0x0
Sense flags&#58; Blk 0 &#40;not valid&#41;
cmd finished after 345.964s timeout 9600s
cdrecord&#58; Cannot blank disk, aborting.

I did it twice with the same warning.

Please advise how to rectify it OR to check whether the CD-RW is already coming to its life end.

TIA

BR
satimis

**deltaflyer** · 11-05-2005

try another disk if the same problem occurs,there is a possibility the drive is on its way out
also,try another program,k3b is good,i use it all the time

andy

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