CDRECORD ever works???

[New_To_RH_Linux]

I have tried many times to burn an iso image but it was impossible with cdrecord.
Why is it so difficult to perform so simple operation as cd burning???
Should people spend days to make this lame programme running properly???

cdrecord -v -eject dev=ATA:0,0,0 FC4-i386-disc1.iso
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-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: 'ATA:0,0,0'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.8 3-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 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 : 'RW/DVD GCC-4240N'
Revision : 'E112'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Current: 0x0009
Profile: 0x0010
Profile: 0x0008
Profile: 0x0009 (current)
Profile: 0x000A
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1705200 = 1665 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 634 MB
Total size: 728 MB (72:12.2Cool = 324921 sectors
Lout start: 729 MB (72:14/21) = 324921 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 4
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2)
ATIP start of lead in: -12508 (97:15/17)
ATIP start of lead out: 359845 (79:59/70)
Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 22
Manufacturer: Ritek Co.
Blocks total: 359845 Blocks current: 359845 Blocks remaining: 34924
Speed set to 4234 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 24.0 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.
trackno=0
BURN-Free is OFF.
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 8 of 634 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 10.2x.cdrecord: Success. write_g1: scsi sendc md: no error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 11 8F 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
resid: 63488
cmd finished after 0.026s timeout 40s

write track data: error after 9205760 bytes
cdrecord: A write error occured.
cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
Writing time: 16.023s
Average write speed 351.3x.
Min drive buffer fill was 99%
Fixating...
Fixating time: 0.003s
cdrecord: fifo had 209 puts and 146 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 131 times full, min fill was 92%.

[spencerf]

you might want to try setting speed to option to something other than default max like 2 or 4 especially for burning an ISO which needs to be fully intact to work property and is a large chunk of file to written at once.

besides that I'm not seeing any other errors: I'm not sure about your ATA option though I don't use it but I don't know what it is either? Not that it isn't correct I just don't use it but I have an external burner through USB.