[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I haven't seen this problem described in the last few months > of the list archive, or in the gentoo forums, so here goes: > > Formats and writes of DVD+RW fail with dvd+rw-tools, > but CD-RW, and DVD-RW can be written by it. Four different > +RW disks from the same spindle: 3 fail today, but one > succeeded about a month ago. Is this a media problem, a > drive problem or software problem? I don't have other DVD > writers to test with so I can't directly test the media in > another drive. I also don't have other +RW media to try right > now. > > A significant change from about a month ago was that at some > point a update occurred for dvd+rw-tools. I upgraded the kernel > from 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 to several versions today to see if was > a kernel problem. Behavior hasn't changed with any of the > newer versions.
Note that 2.6.8.1 and never create problems due to incompatible interface changes. > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J�rg > Schilling > cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r2 > cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. > cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. > scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,0' > devname: 'ATAPI' > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 > Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. > Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. > Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. > Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. > Device type : Removable CD-ROM > Version : 0 > Response Format: 2 > Capabilities : > Vendor_info : '_NEC ' > Identifikation : 'DVD_RW ND-2500A ' > Revision : '1.06' > Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. > cdrecord: Found DVD+ media but DVD+R/DVD+RW support code is missing. > cdrecord: If you need DVD+R/DVD+RW support, ask the Author for > cdrecord-ProDVD. > cdrecord: Free test versions and free keys for personal use are at > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ > cdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder found on > this target. > cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code. > cdrecord: If you need DVD-R/DVD-RW support, ask the Author for > cdrecord-ProDVD. > cdrecord: Free test versions and free keys for personal use are at > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ > Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-ROM driver (mmc_cd). You should just do what the warnings tell you and fetch cdrecord-ProDVD J�rg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) J�rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
