DVD burning issue

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Mon Mar 13 19:00:40 UTC 2006


Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 13 March 2006 08:00, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> cdrecord -prcap
> 
> Thanks for the cluex4 Paul.  The response I get to that command, 
> confirms that my drive, a
> 
> LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1673S
> 
> does not do DVD+RW disks, and thats what I have on the shelf, bought for 
> a previous LITE-ON drive that did do them.  So I have about 45 unusable 
> disks unless the poster who said he could use them by manually fixating 
> them can post his method to do so.
> 
One thing about using "cdrecord -prcap" is that it does not list
any of the +R capabilities of the drive. If it did, it would list
that it does not support them. For example, here is part of the
listing for a DVD-CDRW drive:

Drive capabilities, per MMC-3 page 2A:

  Does read CD-R media
  Does write CD-R media
  Does read CD-RW media
  Does write CD-RW media
  Does read DVD-ROM media
  Does read DVD-R media
  Does not write DVD-R media
  Does read DVD-RAM media
  Does not write DVD-RAM media
  Does support test writing

as opposed to a Duel layer DVD-RW drive.

Drive capabilities, per MMC-3 page 2A:

  Does read CD-R media
  Does write CD-R media
  Does read CD-RW media
  Does write CD-RW media
  Does read DVD-ROM media
  Does read DVD-R media
  Does write DVD-R media
  Does not read DVD-RAM media
  Does not write DVD-RAM media
  Does support test writing

The drive specs say that it does write DVD+R and DVD_RW media, but
that is not listed by cdrecord.

Mikkel
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