wodim fails on 7.04, CD drive becomes inaccessible

[Soner Tari]

Thanks for the reply Lorenzo. Per your suggestion, I've installed
cdrskin 0.2.2 using Synaptic Package Manager. Unfortunately, I see the
same errors, both on the root console and the messages log.

One thing I'd like to mention is that running "cdrskin --devices"
multiple times gives the following lines (each line on different runs,
first line being the first run after boot-up), for example:

0  dev='/dev/sg1'  rwrw-- :  'SAMSUNG'  'CDRW/DVD SN-308B'
0  dev='/dev/sg1'  rwrw-- :  ''  ''
0  dev='/dev/sg1'  rwrw-- :  '��������'  '����������������'
0  dev='/dev/sg1'  rwrw-- :  ''  ''
iN dev='/dev/sg1'  rwrw-- :  '��+�!A�'  '_���EɁ$
0  dev='/dev/sg1'  rwrw-- :  'ommercia'  'l Discussion <as'
0  dev='/dev/sg1'  rwrw-- :  'w second'  's. Is it RTP, NA'

So, I believe after the first device scan, something very wrong happens
and cdrskin (or device driver) now reads random data for the device
name.

Therefore, I think the fact that all the burner tools (wodim, cdrecord,
and cdrskin) fail means that the problem is more fundamental, and
perhaps related with the kernel ata2 drivers going crazy somewhere
(looking at the error logs).

Probably I should submit this as a bug report.

> Here's a crazy idea but it just might work. Have a look at
> http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/cdrskin_eng.html
> and download the latest 0.3.4 tarball. Install it and run the cdrskin
> command just as you would run cdrecord or wodim. Since the code is
> independent of cdrecord, it just might work, but if it doesn't, you
> should be able to get a less cryptic error message ... hopefully. If
you
> have any trouble installing it I will be able to help you further. I
> haven't used wodim to see if it causes the same problem for me that
you
> have, but I do all my burning with cdrskin and have had no trouble
with
> the latest versions under Feisty.