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> It is a known fact that the firmware in the 708 is not what I would expect. > If you insert a medium that it doesn"t like, then it behaves as if the drive > is broken. People who don't know cdrecord well enough could even believe that > cdrecord was broken. I do not doubt there are problems of that kind, but in my case, the original Ricoh-medium that could not get closed with proDVD is certainly beyond suspicion of not being supported by the drive. And with growisofs, it worked perfectly. > Did you ever test with several different media? NOte that there are reports > that even the media that are listet on Plextor"s site may not work. I could not test DVD-R media (as you know), and I did not test other DVD+R (as my coaster count gets a bit high, higher than it ever was with CDs many years ago). But as stated above, the original Ricoh simply is guaranteed to be OK. > The NEC is known not to work with all media. This is the behavior > intended by NEC! They don't like the drive to work with unknown media. > Instead they seem to only write to well known (what they tested) media. Thats another topic.. I thought it was about the same with all DVD recorders: that they only accept media they know. But the NEC is history (or to be exact: works OK in a Desktop with XP). > The PIoneer drives in contrast will try to write to any medium but they > will use a specific slow write strategy in this case. Interesting. Sounds much more customer-friendly. And the Plextor? > There is another problem with DVD+, it seems that all DVD+ drives not made by > Ricoh don't follow the SCSI standards..... Great.. > As you may have noticed, I was a bit disappointed by some DVD experiences > in the first half of this year. I spend a lot of time with Linux kernel bugs > that are only present because the Linux Polit office kernel development model > creates more and more problems for making Linux ready for the future. > Linus Torvalds is one of the biggest problems for Linux :-( Not a thing I presume judgement. Just am thankful for what both of you contribute to Linux / application software :) > implemented. I intended to do this before starting again with cdrecord, but > it seems that I will start again with cdrecord earlier.... Sounds good :) > The Close DVD+R problem is known and I am going to fix this soon.... Sounds even better.. > For DVD-R problems with the 708, I would need information. Well, I cannot give you more than what I already posted in these threads (same for NEC and Plextor): .. 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 Did not find log-messages when this happens. So, what kind of additional info could I get you? Would be glad to support you with some tests, as far as time allows. Just send me a note if there is some new version or patch I can test (if it is supposed to solve some of my problems). Or what I can do to provide you with additional debugging info. (Will not be able to get hands on the drive before next week though). Thanks, FL
