Re: No supported write modes with LG GSA-H62N SATA DVD+RW

[Rob Bogus <rob23@tmr.com>]

Joe MacDonald wrote:
> I've seen a couple of discussions about similar problems to mine with 
> different models (the H30N seemed to be a hot topic about six weeks 
> ago) but I haven't seen any suggestions that make things work (or at 
> least point to a cause of the failure) for me.  First, the facts.
>
> - I bought this drive back in the spring.  It appears to work fine in 
> WinXP with Nero 7.something or other.
>
> - I started off with Ubuntu 6.10 and upgraded to 7.04, neither of 
> which seemed to work.
>
> - cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.20-16-generic (root@terranova) (gcc version 4.1.2 
> (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)) #2 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:55:27 UTC 2007
>
> - I went and grabbed the latest official cdrecord:
> cdrecord -version
> Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a35 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright 
> (C) 1995-2007 J�rg Schilling

Do realize some things about this software, unlike most other CD burning 
software it must be run as root, due to using some restricted commands 
which other burning software packages avoid. You might try "cdrskin" 
software and see if that works better, or "wodim" which I thought came 
with ubuntu.
> - It seems to find the drive okay:
> cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a35 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright 
> (C) 1995-2007 J�rg Schilling
> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
> scsibus0:
>         0,0,0     0) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GSA-H62N ' 'CL00' Removable CD-ROM
>         0,1,0     1) *
>         0,2,0     2) *
>         0,3,0     3) *
>         0,4,0     4) *
>         0,5,0     5) *
>         0,6,0     6) *
>         0,7,0     7) *
>
> - Any attempt to write (-tao, -sao, -dao, -raw) gives me what appears 
> to be the same errors:
>
> cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=0,0,0 -audio gbtrack_01.wav gbtrack_02.wav
> cdrecord: No write mode specified.
> cdrecord: Asuming -sao mode.
> cdrecord: If your drive does not accept -sao, try -tao.
> cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive 
> dependent defaults.
> Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a35 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright 
> (C) 1995-2007 J�rg Schilling
> TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
> scsidev: '0,0,0'
> scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
> SCSI buffer size: 64512
> atapi: 1
> Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
> Version        : 5
> Response Format: 2
> Capabilities   :
> Vendor_info    : 'HL-DT-ST'
> Identifikation : 'DVDRAM GSA-H62N '
> Revision       : 'CL00'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM.
> Current: CD-R
> Profile: DVD-RAM
> Profile: DVD-R sequential recording
> Profile: DVD-R/DL sequential recording
> Profile: DVD-R/DL layer jump recording
> Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording
> Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite
> Profile: DVD+RW
> Profile: DVD+R
> Profile: DVD+R/DL
> Profile: DVD-ROM
> Profile: CD-R (current)
> Profile: CD-RW
> Profile: CD-ROM
> Profile: Removable Disk
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
> Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
> Supported modes:
> Drive buf size : 1053696 = 1029 KB
> Drive pbuf size: 1966080 = 1920 KB
> Drive DMA Speed: 16457 kB/s 93x CD 11x DVD 3x BD
> FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
> cdrecord: Drive does not support SAO recording.
> cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> --
> -Joe. 


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