Joerg, Thanks for the explanation - it's all a bit over my head; I'm just using what came with my distribution. I have downloaded your cdrtools, built and tried again. Here is the result (still no success). Does this help? Parker ./cdrecord -v -dao speed=1 dev=/dev/dvd ~/newworld.iso Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a57 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2009 J�rg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM ./cdrecord: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits. ./cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2). ./cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. ./cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler. ./cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority(). ./cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. scsidev: '/dev/dvd' devname: '/dev/dvd' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 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 : 'GIGABYTE' Identifikation : 'GO-W1608A ' Revision : 'B8S2' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. Current: DVD+RW Profile: DVD+R/DL Profile: DVD+R Profile: DVD+RW (current) Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite Profile: DVD-R sequential recording Profile: DVD-ROM Profile: CD-RW Profile: CD-R Profile: CD-ROM Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+RW driver (mmc_dvdplusrw). Driver flags : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: PACKET SAO Drive buf size : 1602048 = 1564 KB ./cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped. FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 4391 MB Total size: 4391 MB = 2248251 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 WARNING: Drive returns illegal Disk type CD-DA or CD-ROM. Capacity Blklen/Sparesz. Format-type Type 2295104 2048 0x00 Unformated or Blank Media 2295104 0 0x26 Reserved (0) Format was needed. Starting to write CD/DVD/BD at speed 1 in real FORMAT mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts. Formatting media Formatting time: 92.518s Trying to clear drive status. Forcespeed is OFF. ./cdrecord: Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper status. WARNING: Drive returns illegal Disk type CD-DA or CD-ROM. ./cdrecord: Data will not fit on any disk. ./cdrecord: Cannot write more than remaining DVD/BD capacity. MSN NZ Travel Get inspired - dream, research, plan and book your next holiday online. |