RE: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-23 Thread chi kwan
Thomas Schmitt: \I kill on my machine the processes \ hald-addon-storage \which appear in ps -ef with the addresses of my \burner drives. I kill mime and gosh, it is burning at 8x as dummy! Thanks very much for the insight and sorry for not trying it early enough to avoid all the exchanges. li

RE: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-23 Thread chi kwan
Thanks very much for your replies, it's a long night and very surprised to find this load of information, running hard to digest. dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/cdrom output: INQUIRY:[HL-DT-ST][DVDRAM GSA-4120B][A117] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: Mounted Media: 11h, DVD-R Sequen

Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, chi kwan: Cannot write dvd-r(w) but with dvd+rw is great dvd-r(w) support of the drive/system is alright using CD/DVD creator comes with Gnome Possibly this uses growisofs as burn engine. (To verify this: have a look with ps -ef | grep growisofs while

Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > > chi kwan: could you please run >dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/... > on the media which refused to get burned, so we > get more clarity about its state ? This would not give us any more information than cdrecord can give. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de

Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Giulio Orsero: > > Doesn't "Current: DVD-ROM" mean this DVD-R has already been written to? Joerg Schilling: > The SCSI error message was flagged for sector #0, so it seems that the > medium has not yet been written to. cdrecord decided to try a write at sector 0. That try failed. So its assum

Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > Giulio Orsero: > > Doesn't "Current: DVD-ROM" mean this DVD-R has already been written to? > > Good point. > Some drives announce a closed DVD-R as DVD-ROM. Correct, but this could also be a result from a drive that does not like the media because it is impossi

Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Giulio Orsero wrote: > >>... > >> CDB:  2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 > >> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > >> Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 10 2A 00 00 0C 30 05 00 00 > >> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 > >> Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium - incompatible format) Fru

Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Giulio Orsero: > Doesn't "Current: DVD-ROM" mean this DVD-R has already been written to? Good point. Some drives announce a closed DVD-R as DVD-ROM. (This is not wrong because a profile means a set of features and not necessarily a particular type of media.) How does the recordable side of t

Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-23 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:32, Joerg Schilling wrote: > chi kwan wrote: >> Output (from first command on DVD-R): >> >> cdrecord: No write mode specified. >> Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. >> Current: DVD-ROM >> Profile: DVD-RAM >> Profile: DVD-R sequential recording >> P

Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > The problem did not appear with cdrskin. > Probably because libburn opens the device file > with option O_EXCL. > This is no insurance against hald problems, of > course. hald and burning of sequential media > do not play well together. > In this case, you just get into

Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me: > > I have sincere doubt that poor media quality > > can cause a 5,30,05 error. Joerg Schilling: > It may be that this is a problem caused by "hald" That might be a better theory, indeed. I kill on my machine the processes hald-addon-storage which appear in ps -ef with the addresses

Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > chi kwan: > > > Cannot write dvd-r(w) but with dvd+rw is great > > > dvd-r(w) support of the drive/system is alright using CD/DVD creator comes > > > with Gnome > > Possibly this uses growisofs as burn engine. > (To verify this: have a look with > ps -ef | gr

Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, chi kwan: > > Cannot write dvd-r(w) but with dvd+rw is great > > dvd-r(w) support of the drive/system is alright using CD/DVD creator comes > > with Gnome Possibly this uses growisofs as burn engine. (To verify this: have a look with ps -ef | grep growisofs while a DVD burn is going on.)

Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
chi kwan wrote: > > Knowing your reply policies but really getting nowhere from documentation nor > google. > Cutting all the formalities to save your time, the outputs are bit too long. Well, did you carefully read the error message from cdrecord? > Problem: > Cannot write dvd-r(w) but with d

Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-23 Thread chi kwan
Knowing your reply policies but really getting nowhere from documentation nor google. Cutting all the formalities to save your time, the outputs are bit too long. Problem: Cannot write dvd-r(w) but with dvd+rw is great dvd-r(w) support of the drive/system is alright using CD/DVD creator comes wi