Hi All,
I just heard back from Andy Polyakov who authored the
dvd+rw-format and growisofs programs. Apparently my drive
is a derivitive of the Ricoh MP5120A which is incapable of
writing to DVD+R media. I guess we'll just have to purchase
the more expensive DVD+RW media for this drive.
More information is at
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
http://acd.ucar.edu/~fredrick/linux/dvd/
Cheryl
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:36:49PM -0800, Cheryl L. Southard wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We've got a RedHat Linux 8.0 computer with a Philips DVD+RW-D01
> drive. This is the DVD+RW drive that Dell ships out with
> their workstations.
>
> This drive reads and writes CD+R and DVD+RW just fine. However,
> I am having problems getting it to write to a DVD+R disk.
> I pop a fresh DVD+R disk into the drive, then type this:
> > growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -R -J /var/spool/anacron
> Executing 'mkisofs -R -J /var/spool/anacron | dd of=/dev/scd0 obs=32k se
> ek=0'
> :-[ SENSE KEY=5h/ASC=30h/ASCQ=10h ]
> :-( write failed: Invalid argument
>
> It also fails if I try to write a pre-made iso file to the drive.
> >From what I've read, the "dvd+rw-format" isn't necessary on
> a DVD+R disk, and in fact will make the DVD+R unreadable for
> any future "growisofs" writes.
>
> We are running:
> cdrtools-cdrecord-1.11a23-1
> cdrtools-cdda2wav-1.11a23-1
> cdrtools-mkisofs-1.11a23-1
> xcdroast-0.98alpha10-1
> dvd+rw-tools-4.1.3.0.3
>
> Does anyone know how to write to a DVD+R disk in Linux 8.0?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cheryl
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