Re: "Wrong medium type" from growisofs...

["Christian Henz" <christian.henz@gmail.com>]

(Sorry for not replying the proper way, I tried to subscribe to the ML
here: http://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/ , but it does not seem to
work).

> "Christian Henz" <christian.henz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > All of a sudden I'm having problems burning DVDs. growisofs reports the
> > error "Wrong medium type" (see below for details). The weird thing is that
> > I'm using the same media as always (Verbatim DVD+R), in fact I am half-way
> > through the pack and the first couple of DVDs were burned without problems,
> > but the last four I've tried did not work.
> >
> > I'm running Debian/unstable with linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7 kernel. The drive
> > is a Ricoh RW5240.
> > The dvd+rw-tools package version is 7.0-1. I have also tried downgrading do
> > 6.1-3, but that did not help.
>
> Did you try cdrecord?
>
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
>
>
> Jörg

Hi Jörg!

I tried just now with cdrtools-2.01.01a17, but it did not work either:

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# /tmp/cdrtools-2.01.01/mkisofs/OBJ/i686-linux-cc/mkisofs -joliet
-joliet-long -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 2 dvd1/ |
/tmp/cdrtools-2.01.01/cdrecord/OBJ/i686-linux-cc/cdrecord
dev=ATAPI:/dev/hdc -dummy -sao tsize=1252659s -
Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01.01a17 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)
1995-2006 Jörg Schilling
/tmp/cdrtools-2.01.01/cdrecord/OBJ/i686-linux-cc/cdrecord: Warning:
Running on Linux-2.6.17-2-k7
/tmp/cdrtools-2.01.01/cdrecord/OBJ/i686-linux-cc/cdrecord: There are
unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
/tmp/cdrtools-2.01.01/cdrecord/OBJ/i686-linux-cc/cdrecord: If you have
unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
scsidev: 'ATAPI:/dev/hdc'
devname: 'ATAPI:/dev/hdc'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
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    : '        '
Identifikation : 'DVD+RW RW5240   '
Revision       : '1.19'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Warning: creating filesystem with (nonstandard) Joliet extensions
        but without (standard) Rock Ridge extensions.
        It is highly recommended to add Rock Ridge
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+R driver (mmc_dvdplusr).
Driver flags   : DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 3 in dummy SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting dummy write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
/tmp/cdrtools-2.01.01/cdrecord/OBJ/i686-linux-cc/cdrecord:
Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 30 05 00 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium - incompatible format) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 8.975s timeout 100s
write track data: error after 0 bytes
/tmp/cdrtools-2.01.01/cdrecord/OBJ/i686-linux-cc/cdrecord: A write
error occured.
/tmp/cdrtools-2.01.01/cdrecord/OBJ/i686-linux-cc/cdrecord: Please
properly read the error message above.
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cheers,
Christian