Hi, > I tried cdrecord because growisofs didn't work
growisofs not working is a very bad sign for drive and/or media. > But it would still be nice to get a clear > error message indicating what has gone > wrong. We are restricted to what the drive tells our programs. We send SCSI commands and get status replies. In case of error this gives the three numbers SK, ASC, ASCQ which we can translate according to a list in the MMC specs. See e.g. http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/keys.txt Nevertheless the drive manufacturers invent own error codes and sometimes the emitted codes hardly match the problem. But your problem is quite consistent. Drive and media do not work together. You cannot format successfully, you cannot write a single byte. The various programs say that the media is unformatted after any effort to format it (plus tray reload). You need to exchange some of the involved hardware. Drive or media. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to cdwrite-requ...@other.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@other.debian.org