David Bullock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I (David Bullock) wrote: > > >> Hi folks, I'm wondering if someone would characterise my growisofs > >> problem for me, since I am not making much of the diagnostic output. > >> What's going on here? > > > > Then Rob Bogus (not the real Bob?) wrote: > > > My first thought is that your drive doesn't like these media. Is the > > firmware at the current level? > > > > And J Porter Clark wrote: > > >What's your media? DVD-RW? If so, maybe it's the same problem > >I'm having with the Plextor PX-716UF. Try fully blanking the > >disk first > > > > Sorry about the delay getting back to you folks. Further inspection > reveals ... > > 1. media claims to be DVR-R. Attempts to blank it as suggested > weren't successfull (unfortunately the log has scrolled back too far). > 2. firmware is not up to date > 3. I also have issues recording CD's with this drive > > > At least I've got something to go on now - thanks. > > I'll try and fix #2 and #3, plus verify that the drive work on 'that > other operating system' before posting further. Thanks for your help > so far. > > cheers, > David > > > PS. FWIW, here's the fault exhibited when burning a CD with cdrecord. > > arwen# cdrecord dev=0,0,0 /mnt/freespace/isos/KNOPPIX_V3.8.1-2005-04-08-EN.iso > cdrecord: No write mode specified. > cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. > cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent > defaults. > cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd4.9) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg > Schilling
YOu need cdrecord-ProDVD in order to write a DVD. > scsidev: '0,0,0' > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 > Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. > Device type : Removable CD-ROM > Version : 0 > Response Format: 2 > Capabilities : > Vendor_info : 'PIONEER ' > Identifikation : 'DVD-RW DVR-105 ' > Revision : '1.30' > Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. > cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code. > cdrecord: If you need DVD-R/DVD-RW support, ask the Author for > cdrecord-ProDVD. > cdrecord: Free test versions and free keys for personal use are at > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ > 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 > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 16 in real TAO mode for single session. > Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts. > Turning BURN-Free off > cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error > CDB: 2A 00 00 00 01 B2 00 00 1F 00 > status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS) Do you still run a BSD kernel with the ATAPI SCSI sense data/status Bug? If cdrecord does not get access to the needed data it cannot work. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]