Re: Whacked media, drive, or software?
cdwf-deb@duboulder.com wrote:
> I haven't seen this problem described in the last few months
> of the list archive, or in the gentoo forums, so here goes:
>
> Formats and writes of DVD+RW fail with dvd+rw-tools,
> but CD-RW, and DVD-RW can be written by it. Four different
> +RW disks from the same spindle: 3 fail today, but one
> succeeded about a month ago. Is this a media problem, a
> drive problem or software problem? I don't have other DVD
> writers to test with so I can't directly test the media in
> another drive. I also don't have other +RW media to try right
> now.
>
> A significant change from about a month ago was that at some
> point a update occurred for dvd+rw-tools. I upgraded the kernel
> from 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 to several versions today to see if was
> a kernel problem. Behavior hasn't changed with any of the
> newer versions.
Note that 2.6.8.1 and never create problems due to incompatible
interface changes.
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
> cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r2
> cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
> cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
> scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,0'
> devname: 'ATAPI'
> scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
> Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
> Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained.
> Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow.
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> Device type : Removable CD-ROM
> Version : 0
> Response Format: 2
> Capabilities :
> Vendor_info : '_NEC '
> Identifikation : 'DVD_RW ND-2500A '
> Revision : '1.06'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
> cdrecord: Found DVD+ media but DVD+R/DVD+RW support code is missing.
> cdrecord: If you need DVD+R/DVD+RW support, ask the Author for cdrecord-ProDVD.
> cdrecord: Free test versions and free keys for personal use are at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/
> cdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder found on this target.
> cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code.
> cdrecord: If you need DVD-R/DVD-RW support, ask the Author for cdrecord-ProDVD.
> cdrecord: Free test versions and free keys for personal use are at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-ROM driver (mmc_cd).
You should just do what the warnings tell you and fetch cdrecord-ProDVD
Jörg
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