DVD Writing Issue

[Usman S. Ansari]

gary wrote:

>On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 23:38 -0800, Usman S. Ansari wrote:
>  
>
>>I have FC4 on my system and downloaded DVD image for FC5. Also bouth DVD
>>writer. Writer is identified as
>>
>>MATSHITADVD-RAM SW-9585, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>>
>>Tried to write to DVD using following command and got following errors
>>
>>growisofs -Z /dev/dvdwriter=/Big-Disk/images/FC-5-i386-DVD.iso
>>:-[ READ DISC INFORMATION failed with SK=4h/ASC=08h/ACQ=03h]:
>>Input/output error
>>
>>[root at usman Files]# growisofs -Z /dev/dvdwriter -R -J
>>/Big-Disk/lots_of_files
>>:-[ READ DISC INFORMATION failed with SK=4h/ASC=08h/ACQ=03h]:
>>Input/output error
>>
>>I am running 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 kernel
>>    
>>
>  Is the MATSHITADVD-ROM SW-9585  - not MATSHITADVD-RAM SW-9585 ?
>  So far, it looks to me as though neither registers as a dvdwriter.
>--gary
>
Are you saying that this is not a Writer, or is not reconigzed as a 
writer by Linux ? (see blow output of cdrecord).

On other hand, if there is a DVD writter which work well with Linux, let 
me know and I can probably exchange for it.

Usman
[usman at usman ~]$ cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg 
Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to 
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in 
this version.
scsidev: 'ATA'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version 
(schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c       
1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
scsibus1:
        1,0,0   100) 'SONY    ' 'CD-RW CRX1611   ' 'TYS3' Removable CD-ROM
        1,1,0   101) 'MATSHITA' 'DVD-RAM SW-9585 ' 'B100' Removable CD-ROM
        1,2,0   102) *
        1,3,0   103) *
        1,4,0   104) *
        1,5,0   105) *
        1,6,0   106) *
        1,7,0   107) *