Question about writing DVD's

gymnart · 01-07-2008, 09:39 AM

No, I wasn't complaining about the Ricoh drive, I just thought that the info on that drive was strange.

So, I will try out the code you gave me and I guess I'll put in 10 for the speed=x part.

I'll let you know how it went.

JZL240I-U · 01-07-2008, 09:55 AM

Modern drives go up to x52 and x48 is really common...

<edit 2008/01/08> Those values are for CDs.

gymnart · 01-07-2008, 11:15 AM

I just tried that command 2 different ways, both as a user and as root.
This is the result when using as root:

Code:

cdrecord dev=1,0,0 speed=10 blank=all -v /home/<username>/rpms-pictures-backups.k3b
cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://www.suse.de/feedback
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.33
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/sg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

Code:

cdrecord dev=ATA speed=10 blank=all -v /home/<username>/rpms-pictures-backups.k3b
cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://www.suse.de/feedback
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: 'ATA'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (okir@suse.de-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-resmgr-patch '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c  1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 32768
atapi: -1
cdrecord: Cannot do inquiry for CD/DVD-Recorder.
cdrecord: Input/output error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: fatal error
CDB:  00 C0 00 00 00 00
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s

When I tried it as a user, it told me, "cdrecord: Warning: not running as root user, fs= option ignored."

Anyway, thank you for your patience.

JZL240I-U · 01-08-2008, 03:15 AM

Ooops, double post. Deleted.

JZL240I-U · 01-08-2008, 03:18 AM

Darn.

Anyway, shouldn't it have been "dev=ATA:1,1,0"? Negative bus / target / lun don't really make sense...

gymnart · 01-08-2008, 08:22 AM

Thank you so much for your clearing that up.

This is the result of the attempt:

Code:

cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 speed=10 blank=all -v /home/<username>/rpms-pictures-backups.k3b
cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://www.suse.de/feedback
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: 'ATA:1,0,0'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (okir@suse.de-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-resmgr-patch '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c  1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: -1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'SONY    '
Identifikation : 'DVD+RW  DRU-120A'
Revision       : '1.51'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Current: 0x001B
Profile: 0x001B (current)
Profile: 0x001A
Profile: 0x0010
Profile: 0x000A
Profile: 0x0009
Profile: 0x0008
cdrecord: Found DVD+ media but DVD+R/DVD+RW support code is missing.
cdrecord: If you need DVD+R/DVD+RW support, ask the Author for cdrecord-ProDVD.
cdrecord: Free test versions and free keys for personal use are at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/
cdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder found on this target.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-ROM driver (mmc_cd).
Driver flags   : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1310720 = 1280 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data     0 MB         padsize:  546 KB
Total size:        0 MB (00:04.02) = 302 sectors
Lout start:        1 MB (00:06/02) = 302 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
cdrecord: Unspecified command not implemented for this drive.
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 12 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
This drive or media does not support the 'BLANK media' command
cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting.
Writing  time:    0.001s
cdrecord: fifo had 1 puts and 0 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.

So, this is the section then, that tells me that another app is needed that I was never told about:
cdrecord: Found DVD+ media but DVD+R/DVD+RW support code is missing.
cdrecord: If you need DVD+R/DVD+RW support, ask the Author for cdrecord-ProDVD.
cdrecord: Free test versions and free keys for personal use are at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/
cdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder found on this target.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-ROM driver (mmc_cd).

That's annoying. Why was I never told about this?!!

I hope that it is available as an .rpm if it is a complex thing to install.

JZL240I-U · 01-08-2008, 10:14 AM

Uargh. That is an effect of Jörg Schilling's war

.

It is also what I meant in my earlier post about the necessary programs in the configuration tab ob K3b -- there are other possibilities to write DVDs, but since I have no DVD device I don't know which ones you need

.

Try a run with a CD, not DVD and leave out the blank option. Maybe that works at least

Good luck.

gymnart · 01-08-2008, 10:22 AM

Writing to CD does work nicely. I have made several of those.

JZL240I-U · 01-09-2008, 01:00 AM

CDs with the "blank" option?

Anyhow, you might also wish to check on the driver in K3b, for me (CDs only) it is "generic mmc" somewhere in your posts with the output from cdrecord I read "mmc2". Check that it is activated in the appropriate tab.

Btw, I bought a new drive yesterday evening (Philips SPD 6005BD). I'll reconfigure my box and install SuSE 10.3 (when I find the time

). I'll know more after that...

gymnart · 01-09-2008, 11:01 AM

Quote:

check on the driver in K3b

How do you do that?

Quote:

"mmc2". Check that it is activated in the appropriate tab.

I did not see a tab regarding this, where is it?

I do not know about the CD's with the "blank" option, I never had to mess with that.

onebuck · 01-09-2008, 05:46 PM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by gymnart

<snip>

I do not know about the CD's with the "blank" option, I never had to mess with that.

You should 'man cdrecord' to get a better understanding of the command.

Quote:

excerpt from the 'man cdrecord'

blank=type
Blank a CD-RW and exit or blank a CD-RW before writing. The
blanking type may be one of:

help- Display a list of possible blanking types.

all- Blank the entire disk. This may take a long time.

fast- Minimally blank the disk. This results in erasing
the PMA, the TOC and the pregap.

track- Blank a track.

unreserve- Unreserve a reserved track.

trtail- Blank the tail of a track.

unclose- Unclose last session.

session- Blank the last session.

Not all drives support all blanking types. It may be necessary to use blank=all if a drive reports a specified command as being invalid. If used together with the -force flag, this option may be used to blank CD-RW disks that otherwise cannot be blanked. Note that you may need to specify blank=all because some drives will not continue with certain types of bad CD-RW disks. Note also that cdrecord does it's best if the -force flag is used but it finally depends on the drive's firmware whether the blanking operation will succeed or not.

Boow · 01-09-2008, 10:53 PM

Have you tried running k3bsetup. You can also run it from the settings menu from within k3b.

JZL240I-U · 01-10-2008, 01:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gymnart

How do you do that? I did not see a tab regarding this, where is it?

In the settings menu entry as Boow pointed out already.

Quote:

Originally Posted by gymnart

I do not know about the CD's with the "blank" option, I never had to mess with that.

It (and the need for it on CDs) is described in links I posted. Example:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm

gymnart · 01-10-2008, 10:52 AM

I think I finally found a reference to drivers. I had to click on the word, "auto" from the cdrdao entry in order to see the drop down menu.

Anyway, cdrdao is set to "auto" and this is the list of drivers to choose from:
plextor
plextor-scan
cdd2600
generic-mmc
generic-mmc-raw
ricoh-mp6200
sony-cdu920
sony-cdu948
taiyo-yuden
teac-cdr55
toshiba
yamaha-cdr10x

Which one of these would be compatible with my Sony DVD+RW DRU 120A?

dive · 01-10-2008, 11:06 AM

generic-mmc-raw and generic-mmc should work with most drives.