I hate to tell you to do it, but I'd do it jsut to make sure the card
works..
Mine did the same thing, and I gave up and bought a new scsi card, now
it works fine..
It might be the drive, or card.

I also still get a fixation error, but not sure why. Always works
anyway.

just my .02 
nathan

On 27 Aug 2001 11:01:50 -0700, Technomage wrote:
> I keep getting a problem and don't see any clear way around it
> other than sticking the cd-burner in a windows box (you don't want me 
> to do this!!!).
> 
> I keep getting the following whenever I try to burn a disk format
> that requires DAO (Disk At Once). I can burn track-at-once all day long 
> with no problem, but I cannot burn any other way than this, which
> makes burning a VCD impossible.
> 
> the following is the report that gcombust reports. it is the same type 
> of report that cdrdao and xcdroast also report.
> 
> usr/sbin/cdrecord: input/output error. select g1: scsi sndcommand:
> retryable error
> status: 0x0 [GOOD]
> 
> then cdrecord spits out the following:
> warning! using default cdwrite parameter data
> cannot open new session
> fifo has 64 puts and 0 gets
> fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%
> 
> at this point, the machine simply spits out the disk without
> ever writing any data on it at all.
> 
> I have tried for 3 days to solve this without successs. my 
> only option is to remove the device from my machine and place it
> within the windows box and use NERO BURNING ROM (junk software at best).
> 
> I would rather not have to do this!!!
> 
> if someone can please help, I'd appreciate it
> 
> Technomage Hawke
> 
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