Re: DVD recording adventures continued
> > Or in other words - I do not think
> > the problem is that the drive does not like the disc.
> And I don't think it's an application or kernel problem:-)
Well, and we both somehow were right, see below..
> access." Timeout means that the unit failed to figure out what to do
> with media within reasonable time... Does it mean that media is
> supported?
Certainly not. The Princo are totally unusable on the drive.
> Next update will show media manufacturer id even for DVD+media.
Sounds promising.
Now: More insights:
The problems with DVD-R vanished (except Princo), and I was able to
reproduce how they emerged: In my experiments I always first tried
cdrecord-proDVD, then dvdrecord, then growisofs.
While proDVD does not work but also does not seem to harm status,
dvdrecord left the system (drive? bus?) in an invalid state.
mediainfo (as well as proDVD-atip) showed values other than for
a blank disk, and growisofs failed with the message I posted earlier.
mediainfo see below.
Just ejecting and reloading disc leads to a status reset, and the
medium again is recognized as blank and can be recorded with growisofs.
So, now with growisofs (and only with this) I can record + and - as
it seems. You might suppose I'm a happy guy now? Guess what happened
next: with a new DVD+R brand (Imation), the disc recorded at 4x with
growisofs until 100%, and then failed on closing session. Details
see below. Yeah. Any chance for recovery this time?
Fun, suspense, adventure, and something to play with -> DVD recording
in general and especially with Linux (you dont happen to know the
German Ueberraschungsei advertisement..)
Thinking positive, its a progress. Thanks for growisofs, the
Plex708 would seem to be worthless for Linux without it at
the moment.
Bye
FL
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*** mediainfo after dvdrecord fails at beginning
READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]:
Media Book Type: 25h, DVD-R book [revision 5]
Legacy lead-out at: 2298496*2KB=4707319808
READ DISC INFORMATION:
Disc status: appendable
Number of Sessions: 1
State of Last Session: incomplete
"Next" Track: 1
Number of Tracks: 2
READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]:
Track State: reserved incremental
Track Start Address: 0*2KB
Next Writable Address: 0*2KB
Free Blocks: 0*2KB
Track Size: 0*2KB
READ TRACK INFORMATION[#2]:
Track State: invisible incremental
Track Start Address: 16*2KB
Next Writable Address: 16*2KB
Free Blocks: 2298480*2KB
Track Size: 2298480*2KB
*** mediainfo after disc reload (back to normal)
READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]:
Media Book Type: 25h, DVD-R book [revision 5]
Legacy lead-out at: 2298496*2KB=4707319808
READ DISC INFORMATION:
Disc status: blank
Number of Sessions: 1
State of Last Session: empty
Number of Tracks: 1
READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]:
Track State: invisible incremental
Track Start Address: 0*2KB
Next Writable Address: 0*2KB
Free Blocks: 2297888*2KB
Track Size: 2297888*2KB
*** DVD+R Imation endgame
/dev/scd0: flushing cache
/dev/scd0: closing track
/dev/scd0: closing session
:-( unable to CLOSE SESSION (Fh/FFh/FFh): Input/output error
<much time>
- [unable to TEST UNIT READY]: Input/output error
*** corresponding log messages
kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid ...
scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 UNKNOWN(0x5b) 01 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
kernel: hdc: DMA disabled
kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid ...
scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 UNKNOWN(0x5b) 01 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 385051) timed out - resetting
kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
kernel: SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 385051) timed out - trying harder
kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset timed-out, status=0x80
kernel: ide1: reset: master: ECC circuitry error
kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid ...
scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 UNKNOWN(0x5b) 01 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 385052) timed out - resetting
kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
kernel: SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 385052) timed out - trying harder
*** resulting coaster (not recognized by any system)
INQUIRY: [PLEXTOR ][DVDR PX-708A ][1.02]
GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
Mounted Media: 1Bh, DVD+R
READ DVD STRUCTURE[#11h]:
Current Write Speed: 4.0x1385=5540KB/s
Write Speed #0: 8.0x1385=11080KB/s
Write Speed #1: 4.0x1385=5540KB/s
Write Speed #2: 2.4x1385=3324KB/s
- [unable to READ DVD STRUCTURE#0 (52400)]
READ DISC INFORMATION:
Disc status: appendable
Number of Sessions: 1
State of Last Session: incomplete
"Next" Track: 1
Number of Tracks: 2
READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]:
Track State: partial
Track Start Address: 0*2KB
Next Writable Address: 1984640*2KB
Free Blocks: 0*2KB
Track Size: 1984640*2KB
READ TRACK INFORMATION[#2]:
Track State: complete
Track Start Address: 1984656*2KB
Next Writable Address: 1984656*2KB
Free Blocks: 310448*2KB
Track Size: 310448*2KB
FABRICATED TOC:
Track#1 : 17@0
Track#AA : 17@1984640
Multi-session Info: #1@0
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