Writing DVDs on Sony DRU-500A

2004-06-30 Thread Eric Webb
Hi guys, Has anyone had any luck with the Sony DRU-500A under Linux? I have one of these and have been trying off and on for the last year or so to get it to burn DVDs. I am not having any luck right now -- it seems to talk to the drive, but seems to think that it has incorrect media in it.

Re: Writing DVDs on Sony DRU-500A

2004-06-30 Thread A. P. Kennedy
I had a long thread about this drive in this mail list archive. There are some issues but never could get to the bottom of the problem. This drive works fine when setup with the obsolete ide-scsi driver, and cdrecord.prodvd. growisofs will write discs , but sometimes will not finalize discs, but

Re: Writing DVDs on Sony DRU-500A

2004-07-01 Thread Gregoire Favre
Hello, I use cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a27-i686-pc-linux-gnu with this drive and firmware 2.1a and it works perfectly, both as ide-scsi (not tested for a long time...) and with ide-cd (kernel 2.6.7). I have also good result with growisofs (all with -R(W) media, not tried + ones... as the only + media I

Re: Writing DVDs on Sony DRU-500A

2004-07-01 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:52:15PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Just call cdrecord -atip :-) One should always read man page carefuly, cdrecord-prodvd -v dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -atip does the job perfectly :-) Thank you very much for the info !!! -- Grïgoire Favre __

Re: Writing DVDs on Sony DRU-500A

2004-07-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Eric Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Has anyone had any luck with the Sony DRU-500A under Linux? I have one of >these and have been trying off and on for the last year or so to get it to >burn DVDs. I am not having any luck right now -- it seems to talk to the >drive, but seems to think that

Re: Writing DVDs on Sony DRU-500A

2004-07-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A. P. Kennedy) >I had a long thread about this drive in this mail list archive. There >are some issues but never could get to the bottom of the problem. >This drive works fine when setup with the obsolete ide-scsi driver, >and cdrecord.prodvd. growisofs will write discs

Re: Writing DVDs on Sony DRU-500A

2004-07-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Gregoire Favre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >In growisofs there is a nice tool dvd+rw-mediainfo which you could try >for learning if your media is recongized or not. Just call cdrecord -atip Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Writing DVDs on Sony DRU-500A

2004-07-01 Thread A. P. Kennedy
> "Gregoire" == Gregoire Favre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gregoire> Hello, I use cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a27-i686-pc-linux-gnu with Gregoire> this drive and firmware 2.1a and it works perfectly, both Gregoire> as ide-scsi (not tested for a long time...) and with ide-cd Gregoire> (kernel 2.6.7