-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ,--[ On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:02:16PM +0530, SRIKANTH NS wrote: | | Hi All ,
Hi, | | I have a triple boot system (Win98, Debian 4.0, Ubuntu7.10) with 80GB HDD, | 256 MB RAM. | | I purchased a Sony DVD Writer today (technical name recognised in windows | given above). I did not have any hope of this DVD RW being recognised in | Win98. But when I booted into Debian, through the messages scrolling I could | see the DVD RW message scrolling (/dev/hdc). | When I put a Dual layer DVD into this drive , the DVD was not reading. ( | mount /media/cdrom1 ---- no medium found ) Since it was not reading, I did | not venture into burning a DVD with this. I googled for Drivers for this DVD | Writer. All I got was the shopping details of this DVD Writer without any | driver details. | Same case in Ubuntu 7.10 also. I thought the linux distros being very | recent, the DVD writer should work out of the box, but it did not. What is | wrong ? You can figure out what your DVD drive is capable of by executing following: - ----8<----8<---- abbe [~] chatteau $ sudo wodim -prcap Device was not specified. Trying to find an appropriate drive... Detected CD-R drive: /dev/cdrw Using /dev/cdrom of unknown capabilities Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'TSSTcorp' Identification : 'CD/DVDW SH-S182F' Revision : 'SB01' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Drive capabilities, per MMC-3 page 2A: Does read CD-R media Does write CD-R media Does read CD-RW media Does write CD-RW media Does read DVD-ROM media Does read DVD-R media Does write DVD-R media Does read DVD-RAM media Does write DVD-RAM media Does support test writing Does read Mode 2 Form 1 blocks Does read Mode 2 Form 2 blocks Does read digital audio blocks Does restart non-streamed digital audio reads accurately Does support Buffer-Underrun-Free recording Does read multi-session CDs Does read fixed-packet CD media using Method 2 Does not read CD bar code Does read R-W subcode information Does not return R-W subcode de-interleaved and error-corrected Does read raw P-W subcode data from lead in Does return CD media catalog number Does return CD ISRC information Does support C2 error pointers Does not deliver composite A/V data Does play audio CDs Number of volume control levels: 256 Does support individual volume control setting for each channel Does support independent mute setting for each channel Does not support digital output on port 1 Does not support digital output on port 2 Loading mechanism type: tray Does support ejection of CD via START/STOP command Does not lock media on power up via prevent jumper Does allow media to be locked in the drive via PREVENT/ALLOW command Is not currently in a media-locked state Does not support changing side of disk Does not have load-empty-slot-in-changer feature Does not support Individual Disk Present feature Maximum read speed: 8468 kB/s (CD 48x, DVD 6x) Current read speed: 8468 kB/s (CD 48x, DVD 6x) Maximum write speed: 8468 kB/s (CD 48x, DVD 6x) Current write speed: 8468 kB/s (CD 48x, DVD 6x) Rotational control selected: CLV/PCAV Buffer size in KB: 2048 Copy management revision supported: 1 Number of supported write speeds: 0 - ----8<----8<---- In case 'wodim' is not there, install 'wodim' package. I tried this on Gobuntu 7.10 . | Is there any hope of reading dual layer dvd's in linux with this drive ? Or | should I consider Rs 1400 as gone down the drain? | Any help is welcome. | | NS Srikanth HTH - -- Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHOy83Hy+EEHYuXnQRAhXaAJ9/cXRstKpFYwV0iw6ZKN+oe8p0pQCgzUhS R+xo9TETRlo6v4+37KBAsnI= =mwCG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
