problems recording DVD

Mark Knoop mpknoop at gmail.com
Sat Jan 20 15:27:25 UTC 2007


On 20/01/07, Martin Marques <martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar> wrote:
> Hi all, I'm having some trouble trying to record DVDs -RW and +RW. CDs
> get burned OK, but not DVDs. All this on a FC3 system.
>
> Here's the info:
>
> # uname -a
> Linux linus 2.6.12-1.1376_FC3 #1 Fri Aug 26 23:27:26 EDT 2005 i686
> athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>
> # dmesg | grep DVD
> hdc: SONY DVD RW DW-G120A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdd: 50X CD-ROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66)
>
> # dvd+rw-format -lead-out /dev/hdc
> * DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by <appro at fy.chalmers.se>, version 4.10.
> * 4.7GB DVD+RW media detected.
> * formatting /:-[ CLOSE SESSION failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=06h]:
> Wrong medium type
>
>
> growisofs also gives me a "Wrong medium type". All this was done with an
> "Imation DVD+RW|4x".
>
> I tried googleing the problem but didn't find anything that would help
> me with this problem.
>
> Any ideas?

What do you get from:

dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/hdc

?

-- 
Mark Knoop




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