Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Used versions
>> -----------------------
>> cdrecord: 2.1.1a77
>>
>> cdrecord
>> -----------------------
>> scsidev: '/dev/hdd'
>> devname: '/dev/hdd'
>> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
>> Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
>> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
>> SCSI buffer size: 64512
>> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer.
>> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped.
>> Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a77 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)
>> 1995-2010 JÃ?rg Schilling
>> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
>> Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
>> Driveropts: 'burnfree'
>> atapi: 1
>> Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
>> Version        : 0
>> Response Format: 2
>> Capabilities   :
>> Vendor_info    : 'Optiarc '
>> Identifikation : 'DVD RW AD-7200A '
>> Revision       : '1.05'
>> Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM.
>> Current: DVD+RW
>> Profile: DVD+R/DL
>> Profile: DVD+R
>> Profile: DVD+RW (current)
>> Profile: DVD-R/DL layer jump recording
>> Profile: DVD-R/DL sequential recording
>> Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording
>> Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite
>> Profile: DVD-RAM
>> Profile: DVD-R sequential recording
>> Profile: DVD-ROM
>> Profile: CD-RW
>> Profile: CD-R
>> Profile: CD-ROM
>> Profile: Removable Disk
>> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+RW driver (mmc_dvdplusrw).
>> Driver flags   : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
>> Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP
>> Drive buf size : 1245184 = 1216 KB
>> FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
>> Track 01: data  2591 MB
>> Total size:     2591 MB = 1326592 sectors
>> Current Secsize: 2048
>> Trying to clear drive status.
>> Blocks total: 2295104 Blocks current: 2295104 Blocks remaining: 968512
>> Reducing transfer size from 64512 to 32768 bytes.
>> Starting to write CD/DVD/BD at speed 4 in real SAO mode for single session.
>> Last chance to quit, starting real write in 3 seconds.
>>      2 seconds.
>>      1 seconds.
>>      0 seconds. Operation starts.
>> Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
>> Starting new track at sector: 0
>> Track 02:    0 of 2591 MB written.
>> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Success. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
>> CDB:  2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
>> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
>> Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 73 03 00 00
>> Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
>> Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0
>> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
>> resid: 32768
>> cmd finished after 17.339s timeout 200s
>> /usr/bin/cdrecord: A write error occured.
>> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
>> write track data: error after 0 bytes
>> Writing  time:   22.358s
>> Average write speed  87.7x.
>> Fixating...
>> Fixating time:    0.003s
>> /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 128 puts and 1 gets.
>> /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was
>> 100%.
>> BURN-Free was not used.
>>      
> Now we have an error message but there is no information on the media.
>
> Please run "cdrecord -atip" with the failing medium.
>
> DVD+RW is a medium with well known deficits in drive media compatibility and
> there is also low quality media.
>
> As nothing has been written, your problem youd be a result of a drive media
> compatibility problem. This may be a result from writing the media with a
> different drive before. You may try to call "cdrecord -v -force -format" in
> order to reformat the medium before writing to it.
>
> Note that the mein difference between DVD- (the standard) and DVD+
> (a Philips/Sony vendor specific system) is that the DVD Forum frequently runs
> round robin tests for drive media compatibility. The tests are run in a way that
> every media is written with every writer and read with every reader.
>
>
> Jörg
>
>    

After downgrading to a stable cdrtools, I don't have any failing media.  
I have been using the same drive and media for quite a while tho.  I 
think I had the drive for a year or so and the media for about the same 
time.  I re-use the media since it is RW.  Actually, I bought the media 
when I bought the drive.  I got them from newegg of course.

Dale

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