I used to be able to burn good DVD-R and DVD-RW discs using growisofs with a Toshiba SD-R5002 (firmware 1033) in an external firewire case. I'm not sure which version of growisofs/mkisofs and Linux kernel I was using at the time and unfortunately I cannot check since the laptop I was using then is now broken. I was using Debian testing with a 2.4.twenty-something kernel.
Recently on another machine, I'd installed Debian testing using kernel versions 2.4.25, 2.6.3, 2.6.5, and the recent 2.6.6 (unpatched from kernel.org). Three different DVD-R brands have been tried: BeAll 1x-4x, Princo 1x, and a no-name 1x-2x. All attempts to write to these DVD-Rs using growisofs (v5.19) using the same Toshiba DVD-RW drive have resulted in unusable DVD-Rs. dvd+rw-mediainfo reports: INQUIRY: [TOSHIBA ][DVD-ROM SD-R5002][1033] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: :-( no media mounted, exiting... Unwritten DVD-Rs report correct information. One weird thing is the written side of these unusable DVD-Rs look very strange. One can see concentric circles of light-and-dark in the medium which isn't present on properly written media. Currently, I've been writing to DVDs using dvdrecord -dao with iso images which works even though dvdrecord aborts at the end with an error when the cache is flushed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
