> I got a new Pioneer DVR-106 yesterday. > ... succeeded in formatting a virgin DVD+RW medium and > burning data on it, to my delight it was readable on all tested computers, > including on windows machines. I started experimenting a bit with the +RW > burning - but after a while I got this error, whenever I tried to add data to > a disk after formating: > > :-[ LBA=0h, SENSE KEY=3h/ASC=57h/ASCQ=00h ] > :-( write failed: Input/output error
3/57/0 stands for "UNABLE TO RECOVER TABLE-OF-CONTENTS" (see http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/keys.txt for transcripts), which suggests that the media is all screwed up. What media is it anyway? > I must have only formatted it 3-4 times. You don't need to re-format DVD+RW media, just write over the old recording with growisofs -Z command. It's actually recommended, as it was observed that excessive re-formats may render media unaccessible. Yes, one can argue that 3-4 times is not excessive number, but on the other hand it's a firmware bug (I actually could re-format "toasted" media in a unit of another brand) and it's hardly arguable. I mean bugs seldom, if ever, make sense. But in either case, the cause of the problem might be something else. At least I've just obtained a problem report from another DVR-x06 user, who claims that DVD+RW recording performance is lower than expected and that unit report "No medium found" at "stopping de-icing/writing lead-out" at program exit. Can you confirm any of this? The performance problem is already resolved and the second one is being looked into. As soon it's resolved, an updated version will be posted. It (the second problem) might as well be a cause of your "unable to recover table-of-contents" problem... > Is there any way to recover this medium? There might be a way or might be not. Intructions for downloading debugging version will be provided in person. A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
