My apologies if this is a recurrent question but some amount of searching of the mailing list did not bring any working solution.
I have an unfinalised DVD+R media (recorded on a Philips HDD/DVD recorder) which I am unable to read on any of the Windows/OSX/FreeBSD machines I have tried. The recorder itself is however able to read data from the disk (a 2hr recording from TV). So far nothing strange -- however, I was wondering if there is a way to 'finalise' or otherwise write something to the media so the data is actually accessible to other devices than the DVD recorder used for its creation. I have unsuccessfully tried the following: + cdrecord -fix + growisofs -dvd-compat -M /dev/cd0=/dev/zero + the "close.cpp" program from Andy Polyakov none of them managed to render the disk readable, usually failing with some "illegal command" error trying to write to the device, and complaining because of "incomplete track" or something similar. To know what's on the disk i ran "dvd+rw-mediainfo" and "cdrecord -minfo", the output is attached below. What looks confusing to me (and to the two programs as well, i guess) thing is that the "Next" track is reported as #1 even though the number of tracks is listed as 2. Some of the error reports from the above programs mention address mismatches related to this. I wonder, is there any set of growisofs/cdrecord/somethingelse options to make this disk readable ? cheers luigi rizzo luigi# dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/cd0 INQUIRY: [ASUS ][DRW-2014L1 ][1.00] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: Mounted Media: 1Bh, DVD+R Current Write Speed: 16.0x1385=22160KB/s Write Speed #0: 16.0x1385=22160KB/s Write Speed #1: 12.0x1385=16620KB/s Write Speed #2: 10.0x1385=13850KB/s Write Speed #3: 8.0x1385=11080KB/s Write Speed #4: 4.0x1385=5540KB/s Speed Descriptor#0: 00/2295103 r...@4.0x1385=5540kb/s w...@16.0x1385=22160kb/s Speed Descriptor#1: 00/2295103 r...@4.0x1385=5540kb/s w...@12.0x1385=16620kb/s Speed Descriptor#2: 00/2295103 r...@4.0x1385=5540kb/s w...@10.0x1385=13850kb/s Speed Descriptor#3: 00/2295103 r...@4.0x1385=5540kb/s w...@8.0x1385=11080kb/s Speed Descriptor#4: 00/2295103 r...@4.0x1385=5540kb/s w...@4.0x1385=5540kb/s READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]: Media Book Type: 00h, DVD-ROM book [revision 0] Media ID: CMC MAG/M01 Legacy lead-out at: 2295104*2KB=4700372992 READ DISC INFORMATION: Disc status: appendable Number of Sessions: 1 State of Last Session: incomplete "Next" Track: 1 Number of Tracks: 2 READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]: Track State: invisible Track Start Address: 0*2KB Free Blocks: 0*2KB Track Size: 15872*2KB READ TRACK INFORMATION[#2]: Track State: invisible Track Start Address: 15888*2KB Next Writable Address: 1225952*2KB Free Blocks: 1069152*2KB Track Size: 2279216*2KB READ CAPACITY: 0*2048=0 luigi# cdrecord dev=1,0,0 -minfo Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a52 (i386-unknown-freebsd7.1) Copyright (C) 1995-2008 J?rg Schilling scsidev: '1,0,0' scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'ASUS ' Identifikation : 'DRW-2014L1 ' Revision : '1.00' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+R driver (mmc_dvdplusr). Driver flags : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP WARNING: Phys disk size 2295104 differs from rzone size 15872! Prerecorded disk? WARNING: Phys start: 196608 Phys end 2491711 Mounted media class: DVD Mounted media type: DVD+R 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: 2 Disk Is unrestricted Disk type: DVD, HD-DVD or BD Track Sess Type Start Addr End Addr Size ============================================== 1 1 Data 0 15871 15872 2 1 Data 15888 2295103 2279216 Last session start address: 0 Last session leadout start address: 2295104 Next writable address: 1225952 Remaining writable size: 2279216 luigi# ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to cdwrite-requ...@other.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@other.debian.org