I'm running into some problems with my new Sony CD-R (926S, if it makes
a difference).  The cdrecord program from the packages builds OK, and
the mkisofs seems to work find.  I'm beginning to wonder if this isn't a
problem with my Ultrastore-34.  The tape drives all stopped working 
reliably (three different drives, two from Archive, one from Wangtek)
and now this with the CD-R.

The problem occurs when I try to run the following commands:

cdrecord -checkdrive dev=2,0 
  -or-
cdrecord -inq dev=2,0

Rather than waste a lot of time on the group, does anyone have any
information or can anyone help me out a little bit?

The errors in the system log (SCSIVERBOSE is your friend :-) look like
this:

Nov 20 05:38:09 cynjut /netbsd: cd0(uha0:2:0):  Check Condition on opcode 0x25
Nov 20 05:38:09 cynjut /netbsd:     SENSE KEY:  Illegal Request
Nov 20 05:38:09 cynjut /netbsd:      ASC/ASCQ:  ASC 0x89 ASCQ 0x00
Nov 20 05:38:09 cynjut /netbsd: 
Nov 20 05:39:12 cynjut /netbsd: cd0(uha0:2:0):  Check Condition on opcode 0x25
Nov 20 05:39:12 cynjut /netbsd:     SENSE KEY:  Illegal Request
Nov 20 05:39:12 cynjut /netbsd:      ASC/ASCQ:  ASC 0x89 ASCQ 0x00
Nov 20 05:39:12 cynjut /netbsd: 
Nov 20 05:39:44 cynjut /netbsd: cd0(uha0:2:0):  Check Condition on opcode 0x25
Nov 20 05:39:44 cynjut /netbsd:     SENSE KEY:  Illegal Request
Nov 20 05:39:45 cynjut /netbsd:      ASC/ASCQ:  ASC 0x89 ASCQ 0x00
Nov 20 05:39:45 cynjut /netbsd: 

BTW:  Anyone want to buy a CD-R (new, in the box) relatively cheap
(under $300)?  If so, let me know.
-- 
Dave Burgess                   Network Engineer - Nebraska On-Ramp, Inc.
*bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom
"Just because something is stupid doesn't mean there isn't someone that 
doesn't want to do it...."