On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:35:17AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > How do you believe you could get help with this?
I received the answer I was waiting for :-) > You did not mention the software you used It's your great one, version 2.01.01_alpha53 > you did not mention the drive you used Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'TSSTcorp' Identifikation : 'CDDVDW SH-S223F ' Revision : 'SB02' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM driver (mmc_dvd). Driver flags : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP > You did not mention the media type > > You did not mention the media manufacturer .... They are Verbatim DVD-R 4.7GB 16X AZO > You did not mention the media state Mounted media class: DVD Mounted media type: DVD-R sequential recording Disk Is not erasable data type: standard disk status: incomplete/appendable session status: incomplete/appendable BG format status: none first track: 1 number of sessions: 1 first track in last sess: 1 last track in last sess: 1 Disk Is unrestricted Disk type: DVD, HD-DVD or BD Track Sess Type Start Addr End Addr Size ============================================== 1 1 Blank 0 2298495 2298496 Next writable address: 2211648 Remaining writable size: 2298496 But, 99.99% of the time, I got complete success at writing. > >From the size info I can guess that this may be a DVD but a > DVD has no PMA.... so I would guess that you have a problem > with your drive. Well, here I am lost > > The cdrecord web site mentions what you need to send.... Here we have a point, in order to have an even better cdrecord, that could be printed when an error is encountered, just for stupid people like me which don't think enough before reporting an incident :-) > cdrecord -atip or better: cdrecord -v -minfo > > and the cdrecord -v output from writing the medium. That one is a little hard to do after the writing... I posted the end of it. Thank you really much for cdrecord (and all which depends on it), maybe my burn script is somehow false and a more skilled could look at it, specialy for the more of 4Gb part ? -- Grégoire FAVRE http://gregoire.favre.googlepages.com http://www.gnupg.org http://picasaweb.google.com/Gregoire.Favre
#!/bin/bash if [ -z "$2" ]; then echo "usage : $0 DVD_title DVD_dir [write speed]" echo "That will write a DVD with video structure if there a VIDEO_TS." echo "And without video structure if without VIDEO_TS dir" exit fi UDF=`find $2 -size +2G|wc -w` unlock() { cdrdao unlock --device 5,0,0 --driver generic-mmc && sleep 1 } sync ulimit -l unlimited if [ $UDF -eq 0 ]; then COM="-f -J -r -graft-points " if [ -z "$3" ]; then COMCD="-v dev=5,0,0 -dao fs=1000m " else COMCD="-speed=$3 -v dev=5,0,0 -dao fs=1000m " fi VIDEO=`ls $2|grep -i VIDEO_TS 2> /dev/null |wc -w` if [ $VIDEO -eq 0 ]; then OPTS=$COM SIZE=`mkisofs -f -J -r -graft-points -quiet -print-size -V $1 $2` else OPTS="$COM -dvd-video" SIZE=`mkisofs -f -J -r -graft-points -quiet -print-size -dvd-video -V $1 $2` fi mkisofs $OPTS -V $1 $2|cdrecord $COMCD tsize="$SIZE"s - else COM="-iso-level 3 -f -J -r -graft-points " if [ -z "$3" ]; then COMCD="-v dev=5,0,0 -dao fs=1000m " else COMCD="-speed=$3 -v dev=5,0,0 -dao fs=1000m " fi VIDEO=`ls $2|grep -i VIDEO_TS 2> /dev/null |wc -w` if [ $VIDEO -eq 0 ]; then OPTS=$COM SIZE=`mkisofs -iso-level 3 -f -J -r -graft-points -quiet -print-size -V $1 $2` else OPTS="$COM -dvd-video" SIZE=`mkisofs -iso-level 3 -f -J -r -graft-points -quiet -print-size -dvd-video -V $1 $2` fi mkisofs $OPTS -V $1 $2|cdrecord $COMCD tsize="$SIZE"s - fi unlock eject /dev/sr1 sleep 1 eject -t /dev/sr1 cdDir=0 while [ "$cdDir" == "0" ]; do sleep 1 mount /mnt/cdrom2 && ls -alh /mnt/cdrom2 && DF && umount /mnt/cdrom2 && cdDir=1 done sleep 1 #eject /dev/sr1 OPTIONS="delete reburn exit" select opt in $OPTIONS; do if [ "$opt" = "delete" ]; then RM $2 exit elif [ "$opt" = "reburn" ]; then echo $0 $* exit elif [ "$opt" = "exit" ]; then exit else echo bad option fi done