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Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem



>X-Original-To: cdwrite@other.debian.org

>I just purchased a new dual format DVD burner.  It is an Utmost 
>Technology unit.  As I understand this drive is distributed by 
>several manufacturers.  I purchased the first unit on Friday and I 
>was not able to get it to work correctly so I returned it as 
>defective for an exchange.  The second drive exhibits the same 
>behavior as the first.  So two bad drives is less likely, not 
>impossible though.

...

>I have several DVD+RW drives. A HP dvd300i, and a few HP dvd100i 
>units.  Most of these are connected through firewire bridges.  This 
>DD0203 unit is currently installed directly to the IDE bus.  The 
>growisofs program works well with all of my drives.  I also have 
>the kernel patch applied to enable the use of sdd directly without 
>going through growisofs using the raw device.

>The burn process will complete without any errors, however, the 
>resulting disk is not usable.  It can be mounted and a directory 
>can be read.  But the files will all return seek errors like below.

>scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Request Sense 00 00 00 
>40 00
>Current sd0b:00: sense key Medium Error
>Additional sense indicates No seek complete
> I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 52996

>These errors are typical of the burned DVD+RW from other drives as 
>well.  The media can be erased and then reused.  I have confirmed 
>that the media is usable in another drive.  I have also tested with 
>three different types of media; plain (or no name bulk type), Sony 
>and HP.  All were burned at 2.4x speed.

Did you try cdrecord-ProDVD?

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/

Jörg

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