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Re: Can't write DVDs under Sarge

Before anyone puts their money down for any DVD writer it's required to read the hardware requirements closely and know how fast in mhz their intended machine for this writer runs. I work over at http://smartco.org Wednesday nights and we hear about many technohorror stories. One of them that came in the door was an individual with a 450MHZ machine with a DVD writer in it and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work. The reason was you need something on the order of an 800MHZ machine just to run DVD writers at all let alone well. 



On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Jack Dodds wrote:


My newly purchased Pioneer DVD-111D will not write DVDs on my Debian
Sarge Pentium 1.8 GHz system. I am using HP 8X DVD-Rs and trying to
write at 4X.

I applied the dvd-record patch to cdrecord.  It writes between 30 and
200 MByte to the disk and then stops.  The written area on the DVD is
clearly visible.

The same thing happens if I add the -dummy option, but of course there
is nothing actually written on the disk.

The same drive and program writes CD-Rs no problem.

I have also tried growisofs and dvdrecord with similar results.

Here are the results of a dummy write, as well as some information from
the -checkdrive and -prcap options.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Jack Dodds



DUMMY WRITE RESULTS

Note: The -force option gets me past the message
"cdrecord.mmap: Cannot get disk type".

#cdrecord -dummy -sao -force speed=4 fs=10m dev=/dev/dvd image.iso

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)
1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
<warly@mandrakesoft.com>.
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
this version.
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of
cdrecord
     and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
     Please send bug reports and support requests to
<cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
     The original author should not be bothered with problems of this
version.

cdrecord.mmap: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.8
cdrecord.mmap: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord.mmap: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or
Solaris.
cdrecord.mmap: Warning: Linux-2.6.8 introduced incompatible interface
changes.
cdrecord.mmap: Warning: SCSI transport does no longer work for suid root
programs.
cdrecord.mmap: Warning: if cdrecord fails, try to run it from a root
account.
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-0.8'.
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'PIONEER '
Identifikation : 'DVD-RW  DVR-111D'
Revision       : '1.02'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
cdrecord.mmap: Found DVD media: using cdr_mdvd.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
cdrecord.mmap: Cannot get disk type.
scsi_set_streaming
Speed set to 5540 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed   4.0 in dummy force SAO mode for
single session.
Last chance to quit, starting dummy write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
trackno=0
cdrecord.mmap: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150
cdrecord.mmap: Success. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 01 32 3F 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 04 00 00 00 00 0E 00 00 00 00 08 03 00 00
Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x08 Qual 0x03 (logical unit communication crc error
(ultra-dma/32)) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
resid: 63488
cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 200s
write track data: error after 160561152 bytes
cdrecord.mmap: A write error occured.
cdrecord.mmap: Please properly read the error message above.




CHECKDRIVE RESULTS

#cdrecord dev=/dev/dvd -checkdrive

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)
1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
<warly@mandrakesoft.com>.
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
this version.
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of
cdrecord
     and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
     Please send bug reports and support requests to
<cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
     The original author should not be bothered with problems of this
version.

cdrecord.mmap: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.8
cdrecord.mmap: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord.mmap: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or
Solaris.cdrecord.mmap: Warning: Linux-2.6.8 introduced incompatible
interface changes.
cdrecord.mmap: Warning: SCSI transport does no longer work for suid root
programs.
cdrecord.mmap: Warning: if cdrecord fails, try to run it from a root
account.
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-0.8'.
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'PIONEER '
Identifikation : 'DVD-RW  DVR-111D'
Revision       : '1.02'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R


PRCAP RESUTLS

#cdrecord  dev=/dev/dvd -prcap

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)
1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
<warly@mandrakesoft.com>.
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
this version.
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of
cdrecord
     and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
     Please send bug reports and support requests to
<cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
     The original author should not be bothered with problems of this
version.

cdrecord.mmap: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.8
cdrecord.mmap: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord.mmap: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or
Solaris.cdrecord.mmap: Warning: Linux-2.6.8 introduced incompatible
interface changes.
cdrecord.mmap: Warning: SCSI transport does no longer work for suid root
programs.
cdrecord.mmap: Warning: if cdrecord fails, try to run it from a root
account.
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-0.8'.
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'PIONEER '
Identifikation : 'DVD-RW  DVR-111D'
Revision       : '1.02'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.

Drive capabilities, per MMC-3 page 2A:

 Does read CD-R media
 Does write CD-R media
 Does read CD-RW media
 Does write CD-RW media
 Does read DVD-ROM media
 Does read DVD-R media
 Does write DVD-R media
 Does read DVD-RAM media
 Does not write DVD-RAM media
 Does support test writing

 Does read Mode 2 Form 1 blocks
 Does read Mode 2 Form 2 blocks
 Does read digital audio blocks
 Does restart non-streamed digital audio reads accurately
 Does support Buffer-Underrun-Free recording
 Does read multi-session CDs
 Does read fixed-packet CD media using Method 2
 Does not read CD bar code
 Does not read R-W subcode information
 Does read raw P-W subcode data from lead in
 Does return CD media catalog number
 Does return CD ISRC information
 Does not support C2 error pointers
 Does not deliver composite A/V data

 Does play audio CDs
 Number of volume control levels: 256
 Does support individual volume control setting for each channel
 Does support independent mute setting for each channel
 Does not support digital output on port 1
 Does not support digital output on port 2

 Loading mechanism type: tray
 Does support ejection of CD via START/STOP command
 Does not lock media on power up via prevent jumper
 Does allow media to be locked in the drive via PREVENT/ALLOW command
 Is not currently in a media-locked state
 Does not support changing side of disk
 Does not have load-empty-slot-in-changer feature
 Does not support Individual Disk Present feature

 Maximum read  speed:  7056 kB/s (CD  40x, DVD  5x)
 Current read  speed:  7056 kB/s (CD  40x, DVD  5x)
 Maximum write speed:  7056 kB/s (CD  40x, DVD  5x)
 Current write speed:  5644 kB/s (CD  32x, DVD  4x)
 Rotational control selected: CLV/PCAV
 Buffer size in KB: 2000
 Copy management revision supported: 1
 Number of supported write speeds: 8
 Write speed # 0:  8467 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD  48x, DVD  6x)
 Write speed # 1:  7056 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD  40x, DVD  5x)
 Write speed # 2:  5644 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD  32x, DVD  4x)
 Write speed # 3:  4233 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD  24x, DVD  3x)
 Write speed # 4:  3528 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD  20x, DVD  2x)
 Write speed # 5:  2822 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD  16x, DVD  2x)
 Write speed # 6:  1764 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD  10x, DVD  1x)
 Write speed # 7:   705 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD   4x, DVD  0x)
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