> did you also try the Sony DRX-500ULX USB2 drive with the OSS DVD extensions > for cdrtools-2.0 ? :
Patience patience - I'm getting to that ;) I no longer have access to the drive, but was able to borrow it for a few hours yesterday. Firmware upgraded to 2.0 on the drive. 0,0,0 0) 'SONY ' 'DVD RW DRU-500A ' '2.0f' Removable CD-ROM Connected via ieee1394, the box only has USB1 which works fine with this drive for everything but writing DVDs. Kernel 2.4.20, SuSE 8.2. I wanted to know what my options would be for writing DVDs. Due to bad timing the supply of DVD+RW had run out this week, so I could only test DVD-RW. growisofs: complains about "mounted media is not DVD+R(W)". Sorry no testing this with +RW this time. I assume cdrecord-ossdvd is identical to dvdrecord, except that it is based on cdrecord 2. Is this correct Robert? In that case, dvdrecord should be committed to the attic, and I didn't test it. With cdrecord-ossdvd, -load, -eject, blank=fast are working fine. -toc works if the disk has something on it, it gives a scsi error otherwise: cdrecord-ossdvd: Input/output error. read toc: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 43 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 19 44 4A 93 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 423905939 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.004s timeout 40s cdrecord-ossdvd: Cannot read TOC header cdrecord-ossdvd: Cannot read TOC/PMA In some (all?) cases cdrecord-prodvd gives a scsi error too for -toc on a blank disk. There are other downsides to cdrecord-ossdvd. -atip doesn't ever seem to show anything useful. Writing in TAO (i.e. default) mode failed: Supported modes: PACKET SAO Drive buf size : 4718592 = 4608 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB cdrecord-ossdvd: Drive does not support TAO recording. cdrecord-ossdvd: Illegal write mode for this drive. This appears to be nonsense, as cdrecord-prodvd says: Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 4718592 = 4608 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 3906 MB padsize: 30 KB Total size: 3906 MB = 2000015 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks remaining: 298481 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in real TAO mode for single session. Writing to a blanked DVD-RW fails with: cdrecord-ossdvd dev=0,0,0 speed=1 -data -dao -v /data/tmp/diskimg ======================================================================== scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 cdrecord-ossdvd: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version ([EMAIL PROTECTED] '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.75 02/10/21 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 2 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'SONY ' Identifikation : 'DVD RW DRU-500A ' Revision : '2.0f' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO Drive buf size : 4718592 = 4608 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 3906 MB Total size: 4486 MB (444:26.66) = 2000000 sectors Lout start: 4486 MB (444:28/50) = 2000000 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP start of lead in: -150 (00:00/00) Disk type: unknown dye (reserved id code) Manuf. index: -1 Manufacturer: unknown (not in table) Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks remaining: 298496 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 9 seconds. 8 seconds. 7 seconds. 6 seconds. 5 seconds. 4 seconds. 3 seconds. 2 seconds. 1 seconds. 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. BURN-Free is ON. Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... Starting new track at sector: 2000166 Track 01: 0 of 3906 MB written.cdrecord-ossdvd: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 1E 85 26 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 19 44 4A 93 0A 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 423905939 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.003s timeout 200s Sense Bytes: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 write track data: error after 0 bytes I used the binary I compiled myself, starting with the SuSE cdrecord (patched) source and adding Robert's dvd patch. Unfortunately, I have to conclude the cdrecord-prodvd seems to be the only program which can currently be relied upon, although the problem in -ossdvd seems fixable. There doesn't seem to be much going on with Linux and dvd development atm though. 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