Hi, > I have various problems with the LG BH10LS30 BD-RE drive under squeeze. > They start with kernel error messages during booting.
Please show some samples. > When I try to write DVD-RW with wodim, writing is aborted with an error. The error message would be interesting. Especially the cryptic lines. > Writing BD-RE with growisofs fails with "SK=5h/MEDIUM NOT FORMATTED". This message stems from the drive. BD-RE need to get formatted before use. But growisofs should have inquired the media state and then have formatted the media before trying to write to it. What do you get from dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr0 (resp. your /dev/srX address). The media has already to be loaded into the drive. dvd+rw-mediainfo will not load the tray. If this issues error messages, then re-run with dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr0 debug and report the outcome too. > Is this drive supported by Linux > and the respective tools? Or can anyone recommend a BD-RE drive that is? It is quite surely not about the general drive type. For now it looks like bad individual drive, bad cabling, bad controller, or bad drive-media compatibility. Nevertheless, a new LG BD burner should cope with contemporary BD-RE media. Ahum ... already discontinued. But younger than my GGW-H20L, which cannot write contemporary BD-R any more but does well with all 2x BD-RE. It still writes my old BD-R. All CD, DVD or BD drives built in this century comply to the MMC standard. So they all should work properly for reading, and they should work properly with tools which are aware of the specs for the respective media. wodim should be able to handle DVD-R and DVD-RW in DAO write mode. Other types are more a job for growisofs or for my tools, cdrskin and xorriso. growisofs has one known bug with BD-R media. Normally it only causes an ugly message at the end of the burn run. But there was a bug report which says the media was not readable afterwards. cdrskin and xorriso are quite outdated in squeeze (long freeze time). If you want to try one of them, get a package from sid. For DVD-RW and BD-RE, the equipment around growisofs should fully suffice for an examination. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
