Re: Wrong medium type from growisofs...

2006-10-19 Thread Christian Henz
On 10/18/06, Christian Henz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would this be an indication of the drive being broken? Case closed. I bought a new DVD burner, and the good ole Ricoh is already on its way to some recycling center. I had opened it up and cleaned the lenses but that did not help either,

Re: Wrong medium type from growisofs...

2006-10-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Christian Henz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/18/06, Christian Henz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would this be an indication of the drive being broken? Case closed. I bought a new DVD burner, and the good ole Ricoh is already on its way to some recycling center. I had opened it up and

Re: Wrong medium type from growisofs...

2006-10-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:37:30PM +0200, Christian Henz wrote: The command used was cdrecord -v -atip dev=ATAPI:/dev/hdc. The ATAPI: kernel interface is different from the ATA: interface. You might wish to try the ATA: one instead -- that often produces better results. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Wrong medium type from growisofs...

2006-10-18 Thread Christian Henz
On 10/18/06, Greg Wooledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:37:30PM +0200, Christian Henz wrote: The command used was cdrecord -v -atip dev=ATAPI:/dev/hdc. The ATAPI: kernel interface is different from the ATA: interface. You might wish to try the ATA: one instead -- that

Re: Wrong medium type from growisofs...

2006-10-18 Thread Christian Henz
On 10/18/06, Christian Henz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/18/06, Greg Wooledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:37:30PM +0200, Christian Henz wrote: The command used was cdrecord -v -atip dev=ATAPI:/dev/hdc. The ATAPI: kernel interface is different from the ATA:

Re: Wrong medium type from growisofs...

2006-10-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Christian Henz [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Wrong medium type from growisofs...

2006-10-17 Thread Christian Henz
(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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. All of a sudden I'm having problems burning DVDs. growisofs reports the error Wrong medium type (see

Re: Wrong medium type from growisofs...

2006-10-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Christian Henz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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?

Re: Wrong medium type from growisofs...

2006-10-17 Thread Christian Henz
You should run cdrecord -atip to find the medium type and then run cdrecord -v to see more information. Here is the output, attached as files this time. The command used was cdrecord -v -atip dev=ATAPI:/dev/hdc. atip-bad.txt is the output for the DVDs that fails to burn (tried all four of

Wrong medium type from growisofs...

2006-10-16 Thread Christian Henz
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,