>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andy> It's totally up to you. Either would do the job. growisofs Andy> doesn't let you just close the media without filling it up, Andy> because DVD-ROM compatibility of such media would be Andy> permanently limited (see dvd+rw-tools page for details). You Andy> either have to close first session with -dvd-compat option or Andy> fill the media up if you've missed -dvd-compat in first place. Andy> A. Hi, If you did not see my last message it basically said that no growisofs command would finalize the dvd disk. Of course I was at a total lost. After reading some of the old messages in the newsgroup, I tried cdrecord_dvdpro. cdrecord dev=1,0,0 -fix That worked to finalize the disk initially written by growisofs, and DVD disk now works in the sony DVD player now!!! I guess there is an incompatibility with "growisofs" and the sony dru-500a drive that does not allow disk finalization. Below is the new media info output. This shows the last session complete. The previous output the last session was incomplete before "-fixing" the drive with cdrecord-dvdpro. Another point of interest. When using growisofs, or loading the non-finalized disk it sounded like the dvd drive was knocking. I thought the drive was broken when I heard this sound. I found out sony makes a windows utility to test this drive. Will pull it out again and try it out in windows. Wish these utilities were written for dos, Linux, or something easy to install. Maybe one day. I used the tip in the dvd+rw tutorial about unloading and reloading sr_mod in order to detect the unfinalized disk. Found out that if I did not do this I would get the media not found error with dvd+rw-mediainfo. $ dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd INQUIRY: [SONY ][DVD RW DRU-500A ][2.0h] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: Mounted Media: 1Bh, DVD+R Media ID: RICOHJPN/R00 Current Write Speed: 2.0x1385=2770KB/s Write Speed #0: 4.0x1385=5540KB/s Speed Descriptor#0: 00/2295103 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s Speed Descriptor#1: 00/2295103 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]: Media Book Type: A1h, DVD+R book [revision 1] Legacy lead-out at: 1959888*2KB=4013850624 READ DISC INFORMATION: Disc status: complete Number of Sessions: 1 State of Last Session: complete Number of Tracks: 1 READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]: Track State: complete Track Start Address: 0*2KB Free Blocks: 0*2KB Track Size: 1959888*2KB FABRICATED TOC: Track#1 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Track#AA : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Multi-session Info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
