I'm back with season two and a new recorder: now, the Plextor 708 is where the NEC 1300 used to be. All problems vanished? No way..
Using growisofs for DVD+R-media works well, at speed 2.4 or speed 8x (Ricoh-4x, Verbatim-4x only work with 4x). But trying to use cdrecord-proDVD now results in an error when fixating (see messages -1- below), the medium is not recognized by any system (see medium status -2-, -3- below). Going to DVD-R media, I am totally unable to burn any of them. cdrecord-proDVD says the same as with the NEC (see -4-), but also dvdrecord and growisofs now refuse to work (-5-, -6-). Summary: Cannot record to DVD-R, can record to DVD+R only with growisofs. At least, the latter seems to work quite well. Again, am thankful for any ideas, will try out one or another thing, especially regarding DVD-R media. Florian Lindauer --- error messages: *** 1 *** cdrecord-prodvd / +R: ... Max brk space used 7204 2026096 extents written (3957 Mb) Track 01: 3957 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 88%] 8.1x. Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 4149444608/4149444608 (2026096 sectors). Writing time: 408.814s Min drive buffer fill was 51% Fixating... ./cdrecord-ProDVD: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 5B 01 01 00 00 FF 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 26 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x26 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in parameter list) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 1000s ./cdrecord-ProDVD: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 5B 01 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 72 04 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x72 Qual 0x04 (empty or partially written reserved track) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 1000s Fixating time: 0.100s ./cdrecord-ProDVD: fifo had 65359 puts and 65359 gets. ./cdrecord-ProDVD: fifo was 0 times empty and 12752 times full, min fill was70% *** 2 *** status plusdvd: Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+R driver (mmc_dvdplusr). Driver flags : DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R cpm: 0 cgms: 0 ./cdrecord-ProDVD: Input/output error. read dvd structure: scsi sendcmd: noerror CDB: AD 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.514s timeout 240s ./cdrecord-ProDVD: Cannot read DVD structure. ./cdrecord-ProDVD: Cannot get disk type. *** 3 *** status dvd+rw-mediainfo: INQUIRY: [PLEXTOR ][DVDR PX-708A ][1.02] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: Mounted Media: 1Bh, DVD+R READ DVD STRUCTURE[#11h]: Current Write Speed: 4.0x1385=5540KB/s Write Speed #0: 8.0x1385=11080KB/s Write Speed #1: 4.0x1385=5540KB/s Write Speed #2: 2.4x1385=3324KB/s - [unable to READ DVD STRUCTURE#0 (52400)] READ DISC INFORMATION: Disc status: appendable Number of Sessions: 1 State of Last Session: incomplete "Next" Track: 1 Number of Tracks: 1 READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]: Track State: partial Track Start Address: 0*2KB Free Blocks: 0*2KB Track Size: 3163741*2KB FABRICATED TOC: Track#1 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Track#AA : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Multi-session Info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 4 *** cdrecord-plusdvd / -R: Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. BURN-Free is ON. Turning BURN-Free off ./cdrecord-ProDVD: VTrack 0 has unknown length. ./cdrecord-ProDVD: Cannot open next track. Writing time: 0.006s *** 5 *** dvdrecord / -R: Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... Starting new track at sector: 166 Track 01: 0 MB written.dvdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 A6 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 21 02 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x02 (logical block address out of range) [No matching qua lifier] Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 200s write track data: error after 0 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 5.010s Fixating... Fixating time: 0.000s dvdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets. dvdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. *** 6 *** growisofs / -R: /dev/scd0: "Current Write Speed" is 4.0x1385KBps. :-[ LBA=0h, SENSE KEY=5h/ASC=21h/ASCQ=02h ] :-( write failed: Input/output error *** further info *** No kind of errors in /var/log/messages this time. hdparm: /dev/hdc: HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) BLKRAGET failed: Invalid argument HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument *** ruined medium By my own fault, ruined a medium by stopping recording just at the beginning of growisofs - but it obviously had already started too far. Now it says: :-[ LBA=0h, SENSE KEY=5h/ASC=24h/ASCQ=00h ] :-( write failed: Input/output error With -M: unable to pread64(2) primary volume descriptor Any chance this medium can be used after this?