I've been playing with prodvd and it isn't completely reliable. I am having problems blanking a disk. Also as said here... The drive supports tao but for some reason I can't write in TAO.
cdrecord-wrapper just called cdrecord-prodvd. Here is the output of some blank commands. Thanks, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/savarese# ./cdrecord-wrapper.sh -dev 2,0,0 -blank=fast Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a12 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling Unlocked features: ProDVD Clone Limited features: speed This copy of cdrecord is licensed for: private/research/educational_non-commercial_use scsidev: '2,0,0' scsibus: 2 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 2 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'SONY ' Identifikation : 'DVD RW DRU-500A ' Revision : '2.0f' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+RW driver (mmc_dvdplusrw). Driver flags : DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in real BLANK mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts. ./cdrecord-ProDVD: Canot blank with non Ricoh based drive. ./cdrecord-ProDVD: Cannot blank disk, aborting. ./cdrecord-ProDVD: Some drives do not support all blank types. ./cdrecord-ProDVD: Try again with cdrecord blank=all. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/savarese# [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/savarese# ./cdrecord-wrapper.sh -dev 2,0,0 -blank=all Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a12 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling Unlocked features: ProDVD Clone Limited features: speed This copy of cdrecord is licensed for: private/research/educational_non-commercial_use scsidev: '2,0,0' scsibus: 2 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 2 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'SONY ' Identifikation : 'DVD RW DRU-500A ' Revision : '2.0f' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+RW driver (mmc_dvdplusrw). Driver flags : DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in real BLANK mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts. ./cdrecord-ProDVD: Canot blank with non Ricoh based drive. ./cdrecord-ProDVD: Cannot blank disk, aborting. Volker Kuhlmann said: >> did you also try the Sony DRX-500ULX USB2 drive with the OSS DVD >> extensions for cdrtools-2.0 ? : > > Patience patience - I'm getting to that ;) > I no longer have access to the drive, but was able to borrow it for a > few hours yesterday. > > Firmware upgraded to 2.0 on the drive. > 0,0,0 0) 'SONY ' 'DVD RW DRU-500A ' '2.0f' Removable CD-ROM > Connected via ieee1394, the box only has USB1 which works fine with this > drive for everything but writing DVDs. Kernel 2.4.20, SuSE 8.2. I wanted > to know what my options would be for writing DVDs. Due to bad timing the > supply of DVD+RW had run out this week, so I could only test DVD-RW. > > growisofs: complains about "mounted media is not DVD+R(W)". Sorry no > testing this with +RW this time. > > I assume cdrecord-ossdvd is identical to dvdrecord, except that it is > based on cdrecord 2. Is this correct Robert? In that case, dvdrecord > should be committed to the attic, and I didn't test it. > > With cdrecord-ossdvd, -load, -eject, blank=fast are working fine. -toc > works if the disk has something on it, it gives a scsi error otherwise: > > cdrecord-ossdvd: Input/output error. read toc: scsi sendcmd: no error > CDB: 43 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 19 44 4A 93 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 > Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 > Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0 > Sense flags: Blk 423905939 (not valid) > cmd finished after 0.004s timeout 40s > cdrecord-ossdvd: Cannot read TOC header > cdrecord-ossdvd: Cannot read TOC/PMA > > In some (all?) cases cdrecord-prodvd gives a scsi error too for -toc on > a blank disk. > > There are other downsides to cdrecord-ossdvd. -atip doesn't ever seem to > show anything useful. Writing in TAO (i.e. default) mode failed: > > Supported modes: PACKET SAO > Drive buf size : 4718592 = 4608 KB > FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB > cdrecord-ossdvd: Drive does not support TAO recording. > cdrecord-ossdvd: Illegal write mode for this drive. > > This appears to be nonsense, as cdrecord-prodvd says: > > Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R > Drive buf size : 4718592 = 4608 KB > FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB > Track 01: data 3906 MB padsize: 30 KB > Total size: 3906 MB = 2000015 sectors > Current Secsize: 2048 > Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks remaining: 298481 > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in real TAO mode for single > session. > > Writing to a blanked DVD-RW fails with: > > cdrecord-ossdvd dev=0,0,0 speed=1 -data -dao -v /data/tmp/diskimg > ======================================================================== > scsidev: '0,0,0' > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 > Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 > cdrecord-ossdvd: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code > version ([EMAIL PROTECTED] > '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.75 02/10/21 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). > Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM > Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' > atapi: 1 > Device type : Removable CD-ROM > Version : 2 > Response Format: 2 > Capabilities : > Vendor_info : 'SONY ' > Identifikation : 'DVD RW DRU-500A ' > Revision : '2.0f' > Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. > Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd). > Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE > Supported modes: PACKET SAO > Drive buf size : 4718592 = 4608 KB > FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB > Track 01: data 3906 MB > Total size: 4486 MB (444:26.66) = 2000000 sectors > Lout start: 4486 MB (444:28/50) = 2000000 sectors > Current Secsize: 2048 > ATIP start of lead in: -150 (00:00/00) > Disk type: unknown dye (reserved id code) > Manuf. index: -1 > Manufacturer: unknown (not in table) > Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks remaining: 298496 > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in real SAO mode for single > session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 9 > seconds. 8 seconds. 7 > seconds. 6 seconds. 5 > seconds. 4 seconds. 3 > seconds. 2 seconds. 1 > seconds. 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for > reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. BURN-Free > is ON. > Performing OPC... > Sending CUE sheet... > Starting new track at sector: 2000166 > Track 01: 0 of 3906 MB written.cdrecord-ossdvd: Input/output > error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 1E 85 26 00 00 > 1F 00 > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 19 44 4A 93 0A 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00 > Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 > Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0 > Sense flags: Blk 423905939 (not valid) > cmd finished after 0.003s timeout 200s > Sense Bytes: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > > write track data: error after 0 bytes > > I used the binary I compiled myself, starting with the SuSE cdrecord > (patched) source and adding Robert's dvd patch. > > Unfortunately, I have to conclude the cdrecord-prodvd seems to be the > only program which can currently be relied upon, although the problem in > -ossdvd seems fixable. There doesn't seem to be much going on with Linux > and dvd development atm though. > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > > > _______________________________________________ > Dvdrtools-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dvdrtools-users _______________________________________________ Dvdrtools-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dvdrtools-users