bizarre HW failures with DVD+R media cannot burn DVDs
I'm a fairly new person when it comes to burning DVDs - have had a dual-
layer NEC drive (IDE) installed since earlier in the month. I have been
able to burn dvd+rw media fine - but when it comes to DVD+R there seems
to be recent errors -- the disk is not recognized by the drive, it
seems. But I have been successful (at least once) writing a DVD+R early
on. I'm using the same 100 pk of generic no-name 4xmax DVD+R disks and
not getting any further, although I tried to google for posts with the
same or similar error messages, what I got was not helpful (including
some sites in .it I just couldn't access, for whatever reason).
Here is what growisofs reports:
fox@1[tmp]$ growisofs -speed 4 -Z /dev/hdd=dvd.iso
Executing 'builtin_dd if=dvd.iso of=/dev/hdd obs=32k seek=0'
/dev/hdd: "Current Write Speed" is 1.0x1385KBps.
:-[ WRITE@LBA=0h failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=05h]: Wrong medium type
:-( media is not formatted or unsupported.
:-( write failed: Wrong medium type
I recently discovered dvd+rw-mediainfo, here's that output in case it
is helpful:
fox@1[tmp]$ dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/hdd
INQUIRY: [_NEC ][DVD_RW ND-3520A ][1.04]
GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
Mounted Media: 11h, DVD-R Sequential
Media ID: ISSM R02
Current Write Speed: 6.1x1385=8467KB/s
Write Speed #0: 6.1x1385=8467KB/s
Write Speed #1: 5.1x1385=7056KB/s
Write Speed #2: 4.1x1385=5645KB/s
Write Speed #3: 3.1x1385=4234KB/s
Write Speed #4: 2.0x1385=2822KB/s
Write Speed #5: 1.0x1385=1411KB/s
GET [CURRENT] PERFORMANCE:
Write Performance: 1.0x1385=1385KB/s@[0 -> 2297888]
:-( empty GET PERFORMACE descriptor
READ DVD STRUCTURE[#10h]:
Media Book Type: 25h, DVD-R book [revision 5]
Legacy lead-out at: 2298496*2KB=4707319808
READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]:
Media Book Type: 25h, DVD-R book [revision 5]
Last border-out at: 2298496*2KB=4707319808
READ DISC INFORMATION:
Disc status: blank
Number of Sessions: 1
State of Last Session: empty
Number of Tracks: 1
READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]:
Track State: invisible incremental
Track Start Address: 0*2KB
Next Writable Address: 0*2KB
Free Blocks: 2297888*2KB
Track Size: 2297888*2KB
READ CAPACITY: 1*2048=2048
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David E. Fox Thanks for letting me
dfox@tsoft.com change magnetic patterns
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