Joerg Schilling wrote:
Dale<[email protected]> wrote:Used versions ----------------------- cdrecord: 2.1.1a77 cdrecord ----------------------- scsidev: '/dev/hdd' devname: '/dev/hdd' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 SCSI buffer size: 64512 /usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped. Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a77 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 JÃ?rg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. Driveropts: 'burnfree' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'Optiarc ' Identifikation : 'DVD RW AD-7200A ' Revision : '1.05' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. Current: DVD+RW Profile: DVD+R/DL Profile: DVD+R Profile: DVD+RW (current) Profile: DVD-R/DL layer jump recording Profile: DVD-R/DL sequential recording Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite Profile: DVD-RAM Profile: DVD-R sequential recording Profile: DVD-ROM Profile: CD-RW Profile: CD-R Profile: CD-ROM Profile: Removable Disk Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+RW driver (mmc_dvdplusrw). Driver flags : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP Drive buf size : 1245184 = 1216 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 2591 MB Total size: 2591 MB = 1326592 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 Trying to clear drive status. Blocks total: 2295104 Blocks current: 2295104 Blocks remaining: 968512 Reducing transfer size from 64512 to 32768 bytes. Starting to write CD/DVD/BD at speed 4 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 3 seconds. 2 seconds. 1 seconds. 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 02: 0 of 2591 MB written. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Success. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 73 03 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) resid: 32768 cmd finished after 17.339s timeout 200s /usr/bin/cdrecord: A write error occured. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above. write track data: error after 0 bytes Writing time: 22.358s Average write speed 87.7x. Fixating... Fixating time: 0.003s /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 128 puts and 1 gets. /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. BURN-Free was not used.Now we have an error message but there is no information on the media. Please run "cdrecord -atip" with the failing medium. DVD+RW is a medium with well known deficits in drive media compatibility and there is also low quality media. As nothing has been written, your problem youd be a result of a drive media compatibility problem. This may be a result from writing the media with a different drive before. You may try to call "cdrecord -v -force -format" in order to reformat the medium before writing to it. Note that the mein difference between DVD- (the standard) and DVD+ (a Philips/Sony vendor specific system) is that the DVD Forum frequently runs round robin tests for drive media compatibility. The tests are run in a way that every media is written with every writer and read with every reader. Jörg
After downgrading to a stable cdrtools, I don't have any failing media. I have been using the same drive and media for quite a while tho. I think I had the drive for a year or so and the media for about the same time. I re-use the media since it is RW. Actually, I bought the media when I bought the drive. I got them from newegg of course.
Dale :-) :-)

