I've an external USB DVD burner.
The DVD burning works perfectly well (growisofs).
The CD burning doesn't work (cdrecord) whereas the CDRW erasure works.
cdrecord is intalled with suid root or is run from the root account,
with or without driveropts=burnfree
uname -a output :
Linux walhalla 2.6.12-10-k7 #1 Fri Apr 28 13:58:48 UTC 2006 i686
GNU/Linux
(I've also tested with a i386 kernel, with the same results).
cdrecord output :
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fabien@walhalla:~$ sudo cdrecord blank=fast dev=3,0,0 speed=1 -audio
aniRigolo.iso/Track01.wav
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 2.01.01a01 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)
1995-2004 Joerg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of
cdrecord
      and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original
version.
      Please send bug reports and support requests to
<cdrto...@packages.debian.org>.
      The original author should not be bothered with problems of this
version.

cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12-10-amd64-generic
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or
Solaris.
scsidev: '3,0,0'
scsibus: 3 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.33
Using libscg version 'ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg
(ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1 '@(#)scsitransp.c      1.91 04/06/17 Copyright
1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling').
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'HL-DT-ST'
Identifikation : 'DVDRAM GSA-4163B'
Revision       : 'A102'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW
support code.
cdrecord: See /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.DVD.Debian for details on
DVD support.
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
cdrecord: Cannot get next writable address for 'invisible' track.
cdrecord: This means that we are checking recorded media.
cdrecord: This media cannot be written in streaming mode anymore.
cdrecord: If you like to write to 'preformatted' RW media, try to blank
the media first.
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real TAO mode for single
session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation
starts.
cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 00 02 1C 00 00 1B 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 10 2A 30 06 90 21 02 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x02 (invalid address for write) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
resid: 63504
cmd finished after 0.010s timeout 40s
write track data: error after 1270080 bytes
cdrecord: The current problem looks like a buffer underrun.
cdrecord: Try to use 'driveropts=burnfree'.
cdrecord: Make sure that you are root, enable DMA and check your HW/OS
set up.
Any idea ?