can burn cds but not dvds on F8

Robert kerplop at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jul 1 03:11:21 UTC 2008


Globe Trotter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using cdrecord on F8, wodim:1.1.6-6.fc8
> 
> I have been having a strange problem using my cd/dvdwriter. So, I use the following:
> 
> cdrecord -v -eject speed=24 dev=/dev/scd1 Fedora-9-i686-Live.iso
>  
>       which works just fine when writing to a CD-R. 
> 
>       However, the same command using 
> 
> cdrecord -v -eject speed=24 dev=/dev/scd1 Fedora-9-i386-DVD-iso
> 
>      does not. Instead, it produces the following:
> 
> 
> 
> wodim: No write mode specified.
> wodim: Asuming -tao mode.
> wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults.
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> scsidev: '/dev/scd1'
> devname: '/dev/scd1'
> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
> Wodim version: 1.1.6
> SCSI buffer size: 64512
> Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
> Version        : 0
> Response Format: 2
> Capabilities   : 
> Vendor_info    : 'SONY    '
> Identification : 'DVD RW DRU-510A '
> Revision       : '1.0b'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
> Current: 0x001B (DVD+R)
> Profile: 0x001B (DVD+R) (current)
> Profile: 0x001A (DVD+RW) 
> Profile: 0x0014 (DVD-RW sequential recording) 
> Profile: 0x0013 (DVD-RW restricted overwrite) 
> Profile: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording) 
> Profile: 0x0010 (DVD-ROM) 
> Profile: 0x000A (CD-RW) 
> Profile: 0x0009 (CD-R) 
> Profile: 0x0008 (CD-ROM) 
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
> Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
> Supported modes: PACKET SAO
> Drive buf size : 4718592 = 4608 KB
> Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device
> communication breaks or freezes immediately after that.
> Drive DMA Speed: 12430 kB/s 70x CD 8x DVD
> FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
> Track 01: data  3414 MB        
> Total size:     3921 MB (388:31.72) = 1748379 sectors
> Lout start:     3922 MB (388:33/54) = 1748379 sectors
> Current Secsize: 2048
> HINT: use dvd+rw-mediainfo from dvd+rw-tools for information extraction.
> Blocks total: 2295104 Blocks current: 2295104 Blocks remaining: 546725
> Speed set to 5540 KB/s
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed   4.0 in real unknown mode for single session.
> Last chance to quit, starting real write in    0 seconds. Operation starts.
> Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
> Errno: 5 (Input/output error), reserve track scsi sendcmd: retryable error
> CDB:  53 00 00 00 00 00 1A AD 9B 00
> status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS)
> cmd finished after 41.461s timeout 40s
> wodim: Cannot open new session.
> Writing  time:   42.273s
> wodim: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets.
> wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
> 
> 
> 
> I have tried every possible blank DVD (including some bought new just today) and come with the same thing over and over again.
> 
> Any suggestions please? By the way, here is the output for 
> 
> cdrecord --scanbus
> scsibus1:
>         1,0,0   100) 'SAMSUNG ' 'CD-ROM SC-148A  ' 'B403' Removable CD-ROM
>         1,1,0   101) *
>         1,2,0   102) *
>         1,3,0   103) *
>         1,4,0   104) *
>         1,5,0   105) *
>         1,6,0   106) *
>         1,7,0   107) *
> scsibus3:
>         3,0,0   300) 'SONY    ' 'DVD RW DRU-510A ' '1.0b' Removable CD-ROM
>         3,1,0   301) *
>         3,2,0   302) *
>         3,3,0   303) *
>         3,4,0   304) *
>         3,5,0   305) *
>         3,6,0   306) *
>         3,7,0   307) *
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Many thanks and best wishes,
> Trotter
> 
> 
>       
> 

Try:

# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/scd1=Fedora-9-i386-DVD-iso

(man growisofs  look at the 4th example.)

Good luck.




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