I have the same problem. None of the cd burning applications manage to burn successfully. I have also upgraded from Feisty to Gutsy. Here is the output from k3b: System ----------------------- K3b Version: 1.0.3 KDE Version: 3.5.8 QT Version: 3.3.7 Kernel: 2.6.22-14-generic Devices ----------------------- LG CD-RW CED-8080B 1.20 (/dev/scd1, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM] [Error] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R] PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-115 1.24 (/dev/scd0, ) [CD-ROM, DVD-ROM] [DVD-ROM, CD-ROM] [None] Used versions ----------------------- cdrecord: 1.1.6 cdrecord ----------------------- /usr/bin/wodim: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits. scsidev: '/dev/scd1' devname: '/dev/scd1' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Wodim version: 1.1.6 SCSI buffer size: 64512 Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device communication breaks or freezes immediately after that. Text len: 576 TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'LG ' Identification : 'CD-RW CED-8080B ' Revision : '1.20' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1024000 = 1000 KB Drive DMA Speed: 93495 kB/s 531x CD 67x DVD FIFO size : 12582912 = 12288 KB Encoding speed : 153x (11416 sectors/s) for libedc from Heiko Eißfeldt pregap1: -1 Track 01: audio 22 MB (02:12.28) no preemp Track 02: audio 29 MB (02:54.72) no preemp pregapsize: 0 Track 03: audio 36 MB (03:38.97) no preemp pregapsize: 0 Track 04: audio 27 MB (02:42.21) no preemp pregapsize: 0 Track 05: audio 39 MB (03:52.46) no preemp pregapsize: 0 Track 06: audio 40 MB (03:59.66) no preemp pregapsize: 0 Track 07: audio 37 MB (03:41.28) no preemp pregapsize: 0 Track 08: audio 22 MB (02:14.33) no preemp pregapsize: 0 Track 09: audio 40 MB (03:59.82) no preemp pregapsize: 0 Track 10: audio 23 MB (02:18.40) no preemp pregapsize: 0 Track 11: audio 51 MB (05:04.73) no preemp pregapsize: 0 Total size: 369 MB (36:38.89) = 164917 sectors Lout start: 370 MB (36:40/67) = 164917 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, high Beta category (A+) (3) Speed set to 1411 KB/s ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66) ATIP start of lead out: 359846 (79:59/71) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 3 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation Blocks total: 359846 Blocks current: 359846 Blocks remaining: 194929 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8.0 in dummy RAW/RAW96R mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 2 seconds. 1 seconds. 0 seconds. Operation starts. /usr/bin/wodim: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -11634 from ATIP Errno: 5 (Input/output error), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 FF FF D2 8E 00 00 1A 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 40s /usr/bin/wodim: Could not write Lead-in. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Writing lead-in at sector -11634 write leadin data: error after 0 bytes Writing time: 3.253s /usr/bin/wodim: fifo had 192 puts and 0 gets. /usr/bin/wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. cdrecord command: ----------------------- /usr/bin/wodim -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/scd1 speed=8 -raw96r -dummy textfile=/tmp/k3br1ITja.dat -eject -useinfo -audio -shorttrack /tmp/kde-johnnyc/k3bCdCopy0/Track01.wav /tmp/kde-johnnyc/k3bCdCopy0/Track02.wav /tmp/kde-johnnyc/k3bCdCopy0/Track03.wav /tmp/kde-johnnyc/k3bCdCopy0/Track04.wav /tmp/kde-johnnyc/k3bCdCopy0/Track05.wav /tmp/kde-johnnyc/k3bCdCopy0/Track06.wav /tmp/kde-johnnyc/k3bCdCopy0/Track07.wav /tmp/kde-johnnyc/k3bCdCopy0/Track08.wav /tmp/kde-johnnyc/k3bCdCopy0/Track09.wav /tmp/kde-johnnyc/k3bCdCopy0/Track10.wav /tmp/kde-johnnyc/k3bCdCopy0/Track11.wav