Hi, I do realize this isnt the right place for the query, but I really dint know where else to ask.
My fedora system cannot burn dvds properly. That is, my laptop burner and the new USB burner I got just today. I'm using "wodim" and it continually wastes dvds. Here is an example: [an...@ankur Fedora-11-i386-DVD]$ wodim -scanbus scsibus4: 4,0,0 400) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GSA-4084N' 'KQ09' Removable CD-ROM 4,1,0 401) * 4,2,0 402) * 4,3,0 403) * 4,4,0 404) * 4,5,0 405) * 4,6,0 406) * 4,7,0 407) * scsibus14: 14,0,0 1400) 'SONY ' 'DVD+-RW DW-D56A ' 'PDS7' Removable CD-ROM 14,1,0 1401) * 14,2,0 1402) * 14,3,0 1403) * 14,4,0 1404) * 14,5,0 1405) * 14,6,0 1406) * 14,7,0 1407) * ------------------------------------------ [an...@ankur Fedora-11-i386-DVD]$ su -c ' nice -n -18 wodim -v -eject dev=14,0,0 Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso ' Password: wodim: No write mode specified. wodim: Asuming -tao mode. wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '14,0,0' scsibus: 14 target: 0 lun: 0 WARNING: the deprecated pseudo SCSI syntax found as device specification. Support for that may cease in the future versions of wodim. For now, the device will be mapped to a block device file where possible. Run "wodim --devices" for details. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Wodim version: 1.1.9 SCSI buffer size: 32768 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'SONY ' Identification : 'DVD+-RW DW-D56A ' Revision : 'PDS7' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Current: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording) Profile: 0x002B (DVD+R/DL) Profile: 0x001B (DVD+R) Profile: 0x001A (DVD+RW) Profile: 0x0014 (DVD-RW sequential recording) Profile: 0x0013 (DVD-RW restricted overwrite) Profile: 0xFE12 () Profile: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording) (current) Profile: 0x0010 (DVD-ROM) Profile: 0x000A (CD-RW) Profile: 0x0009 (CD-R) Profile: 0x0008 (CD-ROM) Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO Drive buf size : 1563904 = 1527 KB Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device communication breaks or freezes immediately after that. FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 3513 MB Total size: 4034 MB (399:43.26) = 1798745 sectors Lout start: 4034 MB (399:45/20) = 1798745 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 HINT: use dvd+rw-mediainfo from dvd+rw-tools for information extraction. Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks remaining: 499751 Speed set to 2770 KB/s Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2.0 in real unknown mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 1842 of 3513 MB written (fifo 99%) [buf 99%] 3.0x.Errno: 5 (Input/output error), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: retryable error CDB: 2A 00 00 0E 65 D0 00 00 10 00 status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS) resid: 17408 cmd finished after 42.754s timeout 40s write track data: error after 1932427264 bytes wodim: A write error occured. wodim: Please properly read the error message above. Errno: 5 (Input/output error), test unit ready scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 04 01 00 00 Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x01 (logical unit is in process of becoming ready) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.436s timeout 40s Writing time: 542.984s Average write speed 5.0x. Min drive buffer fill was 99% Fixating... Errno: 5 (Input/output error), flush cache scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 04 01 00 00 Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x01 (logical unit is in process of becoming ready) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.940s timeout 120s Trouble flushing the cache wodim: Cannot fixate disk. Fixating time: 0.940s wodim: fifo had 59101 puts and 58974 gets. wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 22707 times full, min fill was 72%. I thought it was caused due to a faulty drive. However, as you can see, the new USB drive I got just today gives the same errors. Please advise a course of action. -- regards, Ankur _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india