"Thomas Schmitt" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > chi kwan: > > > Cannot write dvd-r(w) but with dvd+rw is great > > > dvd-r(w) support of the drive/system is alright using CD/DVD creator comes > > > with Gnome > > Possibly this uses growisofs as burn engine. > (To verify this: have a look with > ps -ef | grep growisofs > while a DVD burn is going on.)
cdrecord is supports to write DVD-R since February 1998, this is _long_ before growisofs even exists and _long_ before commercial DVD writing software exists. Cdrecord does not call growisofs.... > > > CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 > > > Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 > > > Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium - incompatible format) Fru > Joerg Schilling: > > It looks like your drive does not like the low quality media you are using. > > I have sincere doubt that poor media quality > can cause a 5,30,05 error. It clearly belongs > to a family of complaints about media types It may be that this is a problem caused by "hald" or it's recent replacement (I belive it is called "device-kit" or similar) disturbing the write process. You may like to kill all related processes before tryng to write again. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
