Problems with growisofs

[Michael A. Peters]

On 03/14/2005 11:37:54 PM, Itay Furman wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to burn FC3 dvd using my IBM T41.  After some hours  
> reading through the man page, and googling I gave up.  Here is what I  
> tried:
> 
> [root at sam pkg]# growisofs -dry-run -Z /dev/scd0=FC3-i386-DVD.iso
> :-( unable to open64("/dev/scd0",O_RDONLY): No such device or address
> 
> [root at sam pkg]# growisofs -dry-run -Z /dev/hdc=FC3-i386-DVD.iso
> :-[ LOAD TRAY failed with SK=5h/ASC=24h/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error
> 
> [root at sam pkg]# growisofs -dry-run -Z /dev/cdrom=FC3-i386-DVD.iso
> :-[ LOAD TRAY failed with SK=5h/ASC=24h/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error
> 
> In the first case the light indicator keeps flashing for at least few  
> minutes -- I stopped it by removing the medium.
> 
> The device can read DVDs burned by others.
> 
> How can I fix this?

by using cdrecord - growisofs I have only used to create DVD's from an  
existing directory structure. For iso files, use cdrecord

cdrecord -dev=/dev/cdrom -speed=4 -v -dao -pad FC3-i386-DVD.iso

-- 
Michael A. Peters
http://mpeters.us/