I had some .avi's that I wanted to burn, so I went out and bought a 10pack of
Fujifilm DVD-R media (4.7GB) and fired up K3b. However, it kept asking me to
insert a writable disk even though I put fresh disk after fresh disk in the
drive.
So I resorted to growisofs. I had an ISO I wanted to burn as well so:
$ growisofs -Z /dev/dvdrw=/path/to/image.iso
:-( /dev/dvdrw: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: 0
...so I started Googling and found numerous references to people making stupid
mistakes (trying to burn CDs instead, putting +R discs in -R drives etc.)
and a few people suggesting I flash my firmware.
The thing is, this USED to work -- both with -R and +R and +RW... I just
haven't done it for a few months. I burned a CDR just the other day, but
this is the first time in a while that I've tried to burn a DVD. The drive
is a good one:
$ dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvdrw
INQUIRY: [PIONEER ][DVD-RW DVR-108 ][1.10]
GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
:-( no media mounted, exiting...
And the binaries look ok:
$ ls -l `which cdrecord` `which growisofs` `which mkisofs`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 321432 2007-12-16 19:08 /usr/bin/cdrecord
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 83620 2007-12-16 18:35 /usr/bin/growisofs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 432384 2007-12-16 19:08 /usr/bin/mkisofs
As do my permissions:
$ ls -l /dev/hda /dev/dvd /dev/dvdrw
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2007-12-16 18:49 /dev/dvd -> hda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2007-12-16 18:49 /dev/dvdrw -> hda
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 3, 0 2007-12-16 18:49 /dev/hda
...though admittedly, I'm not sure what that "b" is on /dev/hda...
Lastly, my software is up to date:
$ eix cdrtools
[I] app-cdr/cdrtools app-cdr/dvd\\+rw-tools
Available versions: 2.01-r1 2.01.01_alpha25 2.01.01_alpha34
~2.01.01_alpha36 {unicode}
Installed versions: 2.01.01_alpha34(19:08:15 16/12/07)
Homepage: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/
Description: A set of tools for CD/DVD reading and recording,
including cdrecord
[I] app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools
Available versions: 5.21.4.10.8 ~6.0 ~6.1 6.1-r1 7.0
Installed versions: 7.0(18:35:30 16/12/07)
Homepage: http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
Description: A set of tools for DVD+RW/-RW drives
My user is in the cdrom group and the above happens whether I'm root or my
user. I gotta get this stuff burned ASAP and I'm even downloading Nero for
Windows (shudder) just to get it done, but I really want this to work again.
Suggestions? Help??
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