problems recording DVD

[Martin Marques]

Sorry for making the thread wait, but I was upgradeing my system to FC6.

Mark Knoop escribió:
> 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:

New info:

# uname -a
Linux linus.marques 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Jan 10 19:28:18 EST 
2007 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
* BD/DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by <appro at fy.chalmers.se>, version 7.0.
* 4.7GB DVD+RW media detected.
* formatting 0.0/:-[ CLOSE SESSION failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=06h]: 
Wrong medium type

# dvd+rw-format -lead-out -force /dev/hdc
* BD/DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by <appro at fy.chalmers.se>, version 7.0.
* 4.7GB DVD+RW media detected.
* formatting 0.0|:-[ CLOSE SESSION failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=06h]: 
Wrong medium type

> What do you get from:
> 
> dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/hdc

# dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/hdc
INQUIRY:                [SONY    ][DVD RW DW-G120A ][MYS1]
GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
  Mounted Media:         1Ah, DVD+RW
  Media ID:              OPTODISC/OP4
  Current Write Speed:   4.0x1385=5540KB/s
  Write Speed #0:        4.0x1385=5540KB/s
GET [CURRENT] PERFORMANCE:
  Write Performance:     4.0x1385=5540KB/s@[0 -> 0]
  Speed Descriptor#0:    00/0 R at 4.8x1385=6648KB/s W at 4.0x1385=5540KB/s
READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]:
  Media Book Type:       00h, DVD-ROM book [revision 0]
  Legacy lead-out at:    2295104*2KB=4700372992
READ DISC INFORMATION:
  Disc status:           blank
  Number of Sessions:    1
  State of Last Session: empty
  "Next" Track:          1
  Number of Tracks:      1
READ FORMAT CAPACITIES:
  unformatted:           2295104*2048=4700372992
  26h(0):                2295104*2048=4700372992
READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]:
  Track State:           blank
  Track Start Address:   0*2KB
  Free Blocks:           2295104*2KB
  Track Size:            2295104*2KB
READ CAPACITY:          0*2048=0

Any ideas on why this is happening?

I can write normal CDs and DVD, but I can't use DVD that are re-writable 
because I can't format them.

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