Just stole my girlfriends LiteOn DVD Writer to test whether it would work under Linux. I can read / write CD-RWs no problem, but trying DVD- RW gives me the following message:
# cdrecord dev=0,0 -blank=all /tmp/tmp.iso
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a19 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995- 2003 J�rg Schilling scsidev: '0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.75-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.75 02/10/21 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'LITE-ON ' Identifikation : 'DVDRW LDW-411S ' Revision : 'FS06' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R cdrecord: Cannot get next writable address for 'invisible' track. cdrecord: This means that we are checking recorded media. cdrecord: This media cannot be written in streaming mode anymore. cdrecord: If you like to write to 'preformatted' RW media, try to blank the media first. cdrecord: Data will not fit on any disk. cdrecord: Cannot write more than remaining DVD capacity.
This is a blank DVD, and just running cdrecord -blank=all works fine on it. The /tmp/tmp.iso file is only 1.1Gb so it should fit on a 4.7Gb DVD:
# ls -lh /tmp/tmp.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1G Nov 29 13:58 /tmp/tmp.iso
Any ideas? Or should I just assume that this particular DVD Writer won't work under Linux?
Regards, Andrew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
