Re: Writing DVDs on Sony DRU-500A
I had a long thread about this drive in this mail list archive. There
are some issues but never could get to the bottom of the problem.
This drive works fine when setup with the obsolete ide-scsi driver,
and cdrecord.prodvd. growisofs will write discs , but sometimes will
not finalize discs, but the discs can be finalized with
cdrecord.prodvd.
So it a nutshell take a look at
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
For setting up your drive as a scsi device.
Make sure you have the latest ROM version also.
Good luck.
Alan
PS: dvd+rw-mediainfo is your friend and use it often to check your
discs.
>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Webb <ttlchaos@randomc.com> writes:
Eric> Hi guys, Has anyone had any luck with the Sony DRU-500A under
Eric> Linux? I have one of these and have been trying off and on for
Eric> the last year or so to get it to burn DVDs. I am not having any
Eric> luck right now -- it seems to talk to the drive, but seems to
Eric> think that it has incorrect media in it. I have tried Sony
Eric> DVD+RW's, Memorex DVD+R's, Memorex DVD-R's and Sony DVD-R's...
Eric> Following is a message I tried to send to dvdrtools-users back
Eric> in February before I knew that that list is no longer up:
Eric> I'm using cdrecord-prodvd 2.01a24 on Slackware 8.1 (kernel
Eric> 2.4.18) with a Sony DRU-500A. The Sony was upgraded to firmware
Eric> 2.0h.
Eric> If I run "cdrecord.prodvd -dev=0,0,0 -atip -driver mmc-dvd",
Eric> the drive seems to return an error that I have an incompatible
Eric> medium in it. I get this error with Memorex 4X DVD-R's as well
Eric> as Sony DVD-R's (speed unknown). Just for kicks, I also tried a
Eric> Sony DVD+RW disk in it with the same results.
Eric> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I use this same drive to burn
Eric> CD's all the time, so I think this is either an issue with
Eric> prodvd or my command line. The media is brand spanking new.
Eric> -------------------------------------------------- bash-2.05a#
Eric> cdrecord.prodvd -dev=0,0,0 -atip -driver mmc_dvd
Eric> Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a24 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)
Eric> 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Unlocked features: Limited features:
Eric> scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver
Eric> version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. Device type
Eric> : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities
Eric> : Vendor_info : 'SONY ' Identifikation : 'DVD RW DRU-500A '
Eric> Revision : '2.0h' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2
Eric> DVD-R/DVD-RW. cdrecord.prodvd: WARNING: Trying to use other
Eric> driver on known device. cdrecord.prodvd: This version of
Eric> cdrecord limits DVD-R/DVD-RW support to -dummy or 1 GB real.
Eric> cdrecord.prodvd: If you need full DVD-R/DVD-RW support, ask the
Eric> Author for cdrecord-ProDVD. cdrecord.prodvd: Free test versions
Eric> and free keys for personal use are at
Eric> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ Using generic
Eric> SCSI-3/mmc-2 DVD-R/DVD-RW driver (mmc_dvd). Driver flags : DVD
Eric> MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO
Eric> SAO/R96R RAW/R96R cdrecord.prodvd: Input/output error. test
Eric> unit ready: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00
Eric> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00
Eric> 12 00 00 00 00 30 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
Eric> Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x00 (incompatible medium installed) Fru
Eric> 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.010s
Eric> timeout 100s cdrecord.prodvd: No disk / Wrong disk!
Eric> --------------------------------------------------
Eric> Thanks, Eric
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