Can no longer write a CD or DVD

[Mark Fraser]

On Thursday 14 February 2008 16:48:33 Nigel Ridley wrote:
> Mark Fraser wrote:
> > On Thursday 14 February 2008 11:59:17 Mark Fraser wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >> It has been playing up recently though - not recognising that I've
> >> loaded a blank disk, but it always burnt OK. Also, the other CD-RW drive
> >> is working OK. Will try lowering the write speed for that drive though.
> >
> > Managed to burn a data DVD at 6x speed, but when I tried to burn a DVD
> > Video I couldn't even get it to work at 4x.
>
> I had similar problems with a DVD burner. In the end I replaced the burner
> with a new one and no more problems.

Some more information on this problem, I've discovered that the drive will 
start writing again after a few seconds and looking at dmesg I get this:

[48056.660000] hdd: lost interrupt
[48225.056000] hdd: lost interrupt
[48310.128000] hdc: DMA interrupt recovery
[48310.128000] hdc: lost interrupt
[48584.508000] hdc: DMA interrupt recovery
[48584.508000] hdc: lost interrupt
[48686.816000] hdc: DMA interrupt recovery
[48686.816000] hdc: lost interrupt
[48847.028000] hdc: DMA interrupt recovery
[48847.028000] hdc: lost interrupt
[48947.400000] hdc: DMA interrupt recovery
[48947.400000] hdc: lost interrupt
[49125.516000] hdd: lost interrupt
[49649.832000] hdd: lost interrupt

Which doesn't seem to point to the drive failing does it?