growisofs WRITE@LBA=230540h error blanking DVD+RW media
Hello Debian people: I'm trying to blank my DVD+RW media with the command: C:\dvdtt>growisofs -Z e:=/dev/zero This process proceeds as expected until it ends with the error: -[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=5h/ASC=21h/ACQ=02h]: One or more arguments re not correct. As might note from the form of the command, I am running this under Windows (XP SP2). I've come to this maillist because the author of the page C:\dvdtt\Blu-ray Disc-DVD+RW-+R--R[W] for Linux.htm said this was the place for these questions. I've received the exact same termination error on two different DVD+RW media. The session output is below. If this is not the place to post this message, please let me know. And thank you in advance for any help. -- Roy Zider growisofs.exe29-Jan-2006 mkisofs.exe03-Jul-2006 Pioneer DVR-111C 1.06 3:17 PM 7/4/2007 lsz Got to blank, but failed at the end, according to message below: C:\dvdtt>growisofs -Z e:=/dev/zero Executing 'builtin_dd if=/dev/zero of=\\.\e: obs=32k seek=0' \\.\e:: restarting DVD+RW format... \\.\e:: "Current Write Speed" is 4.1x1385KBps. 17367040/4700372992 ( 0.4%) @3.7x, remaining 26:57 RBU 100.0% 36143104/4700372992 ( 0.8%) @4.0x, remaining 19:21 RBU 100.0% 54558720/4700372992 ( 1.2%) @3.9x, remaining 18:26 RBU 100.0% 72646656/4700372992 ( 1.5%) @3.8x, remaining 16:59 RBU 100.0% 91455488/4700372992 ( 1.9%) @4.0x, remaining 15:57 RBU 100.0% 110231552/4700372992 ( 2.3%) @4.0x, remaining 15:57 RBU 100.0% 129007616/4700372992 ( 2.7%) @4.0x, remaining 15:21 RBU 100.0% 147783680/4700372992 ( 3.1%) @4.0x, remaining 14:53 RBU 100.0% 166199296/4700372992 ( 3.5%) @3.9x, remaining 15:00 RBU 99.9% 18432/4700372992 ( 3.9%) @3.8x, remaining 14:42 RBU 100.0% 203063296/4700372992 ( 4.3%) @4.0x, remaining 14:23 RBU 100.0% 221839360/4700372992 ( 4.7%) @4.0x, remaining 14:28 RBU 100.0% 240648192/4700372992 ( 5.1%) @4.0x, remaining 14:12 RBU 100.0% 259424256/4700372992 ( 5.5%) @4.0x, remaining 13:58 RBU 100.0% 277839872/4700372992 ( 5.9%) @3.9x, remaining 14:03 RBU 99.9% 295927808/4700372992 ( 6.3%) @3.8x, remaining 13:53 RBU 100.0% 314703872/4700372992 ( 6.7%) @4.0x, remaining 13:42 RBU 100.0% ... ... 408049664/4700372992 (93.8%) @3.9x, remaining 0:52 RBU 100.0% 426170368/4700372992 (94.2%) @3.8x, remaining 0:49 RBU 100.0% 444946432/4700372992 (94.6%) @4.0x, remaining 0:46 RBU 100.0% 463722496/4700372992 (95.0%) @4.0x, remaining 0:42 RBU 100.0% 482498560/4700372992 (95.4%) @4.0x, remaining 0:39 RBU 100.0% 501274624/4700372992 (95.8%) @4.0x, remaining 0:35 RBU 100.0% 519690240/4700372992 (96.2%) @3.9x, remaining 0:32 RBU 100.0% 537778176/4700372992 (96.5%) @3.8x, remaining 0:29 RBU 100.0% 556587008/4700372992 (96.9%) @4.0x, remaining 0:25 RBU 100.0% 575363072/4700372992 (97.3%) @4.0x, remaining 0:22 RBU 100.0% 594139136/4700372992 (97.7%) @4.0x, remaining 0:19 RBU 100.0% 612915200/4700372992 (98.1%) @4.0x, remaining 0:15 RBU 100.0% 631330816/4700372992 (98.5%) @3.9x, remaining 0:12 RBU 100.0% 649418752/4700372992 (98.9%) @3.8x, remaining 0:09 RBU 100.0% 668194816/4700372992 (99.3%) @4.0x, remaining 0:05 RBU 100.0% 687003648/4700372992 (99.7%) @4.0x, remaining 0:02 RBU 100.0% -[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=5h/ASC=21h/ACQ=02h]: One or more arguments re not correct. -( write failed: One or more arguments are not correct. \.\e:: flushing cache \.\e:: stopping de-icing \.\e:: writing lead-out -[ CLOSE SESSION failed with SK=2h/ASC=04h/ACQ=07h]: The device is not ready. C:\dvdtt> C:\dvdtt>mi e: INQUIRY:[PIONEER ][DVD-RW DVR-111C][1.06] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: Mounted Media: 1Ah, DVD+RW Media ID: RICOHJPN/W11 Current Write Speed: 4.0x1385=5540KB/s Write Speed #0:4.0x1385=5540KB/s Write Speed #1:2.4x1385=3324KB/s Speed Descriptor#0:00/2295103 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s Speed Descriptor#1:00/2295103 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]: Media Book Type: 92h, DVD+RW book [revision 2] Legacy lead-out at:2295104*2KB=4700372992 READ DISC INFORMATION: Disc status: complete Number of Sessions:1 State of Last Session: complete Number of Tracks: 1 BG Format Status: suspended READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]: Track State: complete Track Start Address: 0*2KB Free Blocks: 0*2KB Track Size:2295104*2KB FABRICATED TOC: Track#1 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Track#AA : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Multi-session Info:[EMAIL PROTECTED] READ CAPACITY: 2295104*2048=4700372992 C:\dvdtt> . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: growisofs WRITE@LBA=230540h error blanking DVD+RW media
Hi, > C:\dvdtt>growisofs -Z e:=/dev/zero > :-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=5h/ASC=21h/ACQ=02h] >From http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/mmc5/mmc5r03c.pdf : 5 21 02 INVALID ADDRESS FOR WRITE [EMAIL PROTECTED] is decimal block address 2295104 (if i did the computing right this time). This is exactly the capacity obtained by command dvd+rw-mediainfo . > READ CAPACITY: 2295104*2048=4700372992 So writing just reached the end of the media and failed rightously. > :-[ CLOSE SESSION failed with SK=2h/ASC=04h/ACQ=07h] With DVD+RW media this sudden end is not supposed to do harm. The media should be readable and writeable afterwards. (With other media types there could be essential finalization activities missing.) To avoid that message i would restrict input to the maximum permissible capacity. On a Linux system that would be this command pipe: dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=2295104 | \ growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=/dev/fd/0 where "/dev/sr0" is the drive address and "/dev/fd/0" is the pseudo-device which delivers standard input. You will have to find out its equivalent on your operating system. (Maybe growisofs recognizes that address and uses stdin instead. There is a line in growisofs.c which invites for a try even on systems which don't have a device file /dev/fd/0 : if (sscanf(in_image,"/dev/fd/%u",&imgfd) == 1) ) BTW: You are aware that "blanking" DVD+RW is not needed for rewriting this type of media ? It is only a privacy measure to make old content hard to read. (Beware: it's not totally unreadable afterwards. At least not for forensic experts.) Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: growisofs WRITE@LBA=230540h error blanking DVD+RW media
"BitBucket" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Debian people: > > I'm trying to blank my DVD+RW media with the command: > > C:\dvdtt>growisofs -Z e:=/dev/zero > > This process proceeds as expected until it ends with the error: > > -[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=5h/ASC=21h/ACQ=02h]: One or more > arguments > re not correct. Try to upgrade to cdrecord. Cdrecord prints human readable error messages for SCSI errors. The correct message would be "invalid address for write" Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: growisofs WRITE@LBA=230540h error blanking DVD+RW media
* Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-05 11:49:29 +0200]: > "BitBucket" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > C:\dvdtt>growisofs -Z e:=/dev/zero > > -[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=5h/ASC=21h/ACQ=02h]: One or more > > arguments are not correct. > > Try to upgrade to cdrecord. Cdrecord prints human readable error messages > for SCSI errors. > > The correct message would be "invalid address for write" I think both products ought to flesh out their error-message systems. -- Tux rox! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: growisofs WRITE@LBA=230540h error blanking DVD+RW media
Chris Ahlstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-05 11:49:29 +0200]: > > > "BitBucket" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > C:\dvdtt>growisofs -Z e:=/dev/zero > > > -[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=5h/ASC=21h/ACQ=02h]: One or more > > > arguments are not correct. > > > > Try to upgrade to cdrecord. Cdrecord prints human readable error messages > > for SCSI errors. > > > > The correct message would be "invalid address for write" > > I think both products ought to flesh out their error-message systems. I don't see any way to improve the SCSI error messages from libscg. If you have an idea, you are welcome! Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: growisofs WRITE@LBA=230540h error blanking DVD+RW media
* Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-05 13:27:19 +0200]: > Chris Ahlstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-05 11:49:29 +0200]: > > > > I think both products ought to flesh out their error-message systems. > > I don't see any way to improve the SCSI error messages from libscg. > If you have an idea, you are welcome! Well, it wouldn't be easy, but... apply the same methods that a previous knowledgable poster did to validate the arguments (or lack of arguments) passed to the application. I didn't mean to sound negative. The human interface is the hardest to get right, even in command-line apps! -- Tux rox! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: growisofs WRITE@LBA=230540h error blanking DVD+RW media
Thomas Schimitt has it right -- the LBA=230540h is 2,295,104 decimal, which is the total number of blocks on the DVD+RW medial Since the LBA addressing starts from zero, an attempt to address that block is trying to address on past the last LBA block on the DVD. (I originally checked this, but for some stupid reason failed to make the translation from hex to decimal, no doubt due to frustration and carelessness.) So the error message is correct -- it is an incorrect argument. There must be some error then in the source code, since the program clearly knows the size of the DVD media, and shouldn't be trying to write past the end of the disc. But more importantly, the resulting media is not blanked back to its virgin state, but is merely nulled. That is, there is still a Session 1 - track 01 structure, 4700372992 bytes long. This I was trying to blank out entirely, to start fresh. My reading of the man pages for growisofs was that this was accomplished by the command I used: growisofs -Z e:=/dev/zero although the "/dev/zero" does seem to indicate that the track 01 should just be zeroed out (filled with nulls), not eliminated entirely. Also, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being hidden with "EMAIL PROTECTED". As I am new to this list, I assume the subscribers are getting the actual text, whereas the protected overwrite is for the mail list. My further questions: 1. What then is the command to blank the DVD+RW media, and return it to virgin state? 2. Who do I notify about the error in the code that causes it ti attempt a write beyond the disc limit? Thank you in advance for your help with this. -- Roy Zider Windows binaries from http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/tools/win32/ growisofs.exe29-Jan-2006 mkisofs.exe03-Jul-2006 Pioneer DVR-111C 1.06 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: growisofs WRITE@LBA=230540h error blanking DVD+RW media
Hi, > Subject: Re: growisofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] error blanking DVD+RW media > Also, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being hidden with "EMAIL PROTECTED". Obviously some software mistakes the message for a mail address. Only good we are into CD/DVD writing and not into mailing list software :)) I subscribed by sending Subject:subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and i get uncensored subject lines. The archive at http://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/2007/07/threads.html shows no censoring either. > So the error message is correct -- it is an incorrect argument. There must > be some error then in the source code, since the program clearly knows the > size of the DVD media, and shouldn't be trying to write past the end of the > disc. In some aspect, growisofs is a raw program. But hey, we love it for its unique stunts. I personally have to thank it for teaching me the framework of DVD burning. > 1. What then is the command to blank the DVD+RW media, and return it to > virgin state? Joerg Schilling: > this is impossible with DVD+RW media unless you own a very old > Ricoh DVD writer. I would have flatly stated that it is impossible with DVD+RW. Interesting feature. Not mentioned in the standards, afaik. DVD-RW media can be (re-)formatted: dvd+rw-format -force /dev/sr0 This will bring the media into "Intermediate state" which allows no random write access. After the first write is completed, the formatting will allow to use random access with 32 kB granularity. DVD-RW may be deformatted by dvd+rw-format -blank=full /dev/sr0 In that state they can take multiple sessions quite like CD-R[W] or like DVD-R. No random access, of course. > This I was trying to blank out entirely, to start fresh. Question is: for what purpose ? The one single session of a DVD+RW is a mere fake anyway. Actually there is a formatted area which can be expanded if necessary and if the media has still free space. The concept of one or more sessions makes sense with CD-R[W], DVD-R, DVD+R, or unformatted DVD-RW. But hardly for DVD-RAM, DVD+RW or formatted DVD-RW. > 2. Who do I notify about the error in the code that causes it ti attempt > a write beyond the disc limit? This mailing list here is the place where to post messages for Andy Polyakov, the author of growisofs. (I would like to re-iterate my bug report about -dvd-compat and open-ended data sources when applied to blank DVD-R[W].) Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: growisofs WRITE@LBA=230540h error blanking DVD+RW media
Jörg > 1. What then is the command to blank the DVD+RW media, and return it > to > virgin state? If you use cdrecord ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ you will read in the documentation that this is impossible with DVD+RW media unless you own a very old Ricoh DVD writer. Even then, you need cdrecord to blank the media. ==> Thank you for clarifying that. I had visited that ftp site but of course did not come across that documentation. So from your answer I can take it that there is no way to restore the DVD+RW media to its blank state, as there is with DVD-RW, nicht wahr? -- Roy btw: I was a graduate student at TU Berlin in 1965, in physics. Promptly "beurlaubt" due to my failure to understand the German language at a level that would have enabled me to understand what the heck was happening in my courses. Went to the Goethe Institut in Brannenberg-Degendorf to partially correct that deficiency. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: growisofs WRITE@LBA=230540h error blanking DVD+RW media
BitBucket wrote: Thomas Schimitt has it right -- the LBA=230540h is 2,295,104 decimal, which is the total number of blocks on the DVD+RW medial Since the LBA addressing starts from zero, an attempt to address that block is trying to address on past the last LBA block on the DVD. (I originally checked this, but for some stupid reason failed to make the translation from hex to decimal, no doubt due to frustration and carelessness.) So the error message is correct -- it is an incorrect argument. There must be some error then in the source code, since the program clearly knows the size of the DVD media, and shouldn't be trying to write past the end of the disc. But more importantly, the resulting media is not blanked back to its virgin state, but is merely nulled. That is, there is still a Session 1 - track 01 structure, 4700372992 bytes long. This I was trying to blank out entirely, to start fresh. My reading of the man pages for growisofs was that this was accomplished by the command I used: growisofs -Z e:=/dev/zero although the "/dev/zero" does seem to indicate that the track 01 should just be zeroed out (filled with nulls), not eliminated entirely. Also, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being hidden with "EMAIL PROTECTED". As I am new to this list, I assume the subscribers are getting the actual text, whereas the protected overwrite is for the mail list. My further questions: 1. What then is the command to blank the DVD+RW media, and return it to virgin state? The dvd+rw-format command is used to format dvd+rw. It is at the URL you list below. 2. Who do I notify about the error in the code that causes it ti attempt a write beyond the disc limit? I think size checking is done only for ISO images. If you feed from a source, using a non-ISO image, I believe you bypass that logic. Unlike cdrecord, growisofs can burn from a pipe. Thank you in advance for your help with this. Well I have no competing product to flog, so I can actually try to help you. -- Roy Zider Windows binaries from http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/tools/win32/ growisofs.exe29-Jan-2006 mkisofs.exe03-Jul-2006 Pioneer DVR-111C 1.06 -- E. Robert Bogusta It seemed like a good idea at the time -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: growisofs WRITE@LBA=230540h error blanking DVD+RW media
Thomas: Thank you again for your excellent reply. 1. I was posting to the email list at http://www.mail-archive.com/cdwrite@other.debian.org/info.html. I thought that was the gateway to cdwrite messages. It substitutes the [EMAIL PROTECTED] portion of the subject and message with EMAIL PROTECTED]. This isn't so bad when the sender (me in this case) wants to protect his email address from spam harvesters, but it does make it difficult to get the details of the reported message. Your suggested email list address http://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/2007/07/threads.html is what I'm using now, and I can see all the text, including my return email address. Oh, well. 2. I came to growisofs because it was suggested to me that this would be able to restore the DVD+RW media to its virgin state. Evidently that is not possible, which seems very strange to me at the least. You can do it with DVD-RW and virtually every other recordable media I am aware of. 3. The reason I want to do it is because I've been having problems with the "erased" media format that leaves a Session 1 - track 01 structure on the disc, length 4.7 sales GB, closed, but with nulls in all the track sectors. Some software (e.g. Plextools) gets very confused by this situation, and becomes virtually useless unless it has something to work on. So in cases like this you always want to be able to return to a known good state -- in this case, blank media. Everything understands that. 4. You mention some reformatting with DVD-RW (not DVD+RW). I got a -RW disc here, and was able with simple erase to recover what Isobuster and others recognize as a simple Blank DVD-RW. So for my purposed the intermediate operations you suggest are not necessary in the instant case, though might be in some other context. 5. I sent an email to Andy Polyakov, asking him where to report this bug. I didn't realize he was the author of growisofs. Maybe he'll look into doing a true blanking of the media. I mean, how hard can it be to simply zap the specific sectors that hold this bogus session - track 01 structure? Thanks for your help -- greatly appreciated. -- Roy Zider 2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
