Fail to burn DVDs [was: problems with growisofs]

[Itay Furman]

Thanks for the reply.

Why I tried growisofs?  My impression from reading some info on the web
was that this is the current tool to do the job.

Anyway I tried cdrecord with exactly the same syntax that you offered,
but it didn't work -- I appended the output of the command to the end
of this message below.  Also I appended the output of '-scanbus' and
'dev=help' options.  Finally I appended variations on your proposed
command --  all failed with various messages, most of them similar.
My appologies if this message becomes too long -- I really cannot
read the output of 'cdrecord' and infer what is important and what
is not.

What else should I try?  or is my device broken?

 	Thanks in advance,
 	Itay


On 03/15/2005 Michael wrote:

> 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 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 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 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/
> 
>

## Complete transcript of proposed command

[root at sam pkg]# cdrecord -dev=/dev/cdrom -speed=4 -v -dao -pad FC3-i386-DVD.iso
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jrrrrrrg Schill
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this versio
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '/dev/cdrom'
devname: '/dev/cdrom'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red opyright 1997 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'MATSHITA'
Identifikation : 'UJDA755zDVD/CDRW'
Revision       : '1.20'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
cdrecord: Cannot load media with this drive!
cdrecord: Try to load media by hand.
Current: 0x0000
Profile: 0x0010
Profile: 0x000A
Profile: 0x0009
Profile: 0x0008
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data  2047 MB         padsize:   30 KB
Total size:     2352 MB (233:01.21) = 1048591 sectors
Lout start:     2352 MB (233:03/16) = 1048591 sectors
cdrecord: Cannot load media with this drive!
cdrecord: Try to load media by hand.
cdrecord: Cannot load media.

## Info produced by cdrecord

[root at sam pkg]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jrrrrrrg Schill
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this versio
scsidev: 'ATA'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red opyright 1997 J. Schilling').
scsibus1:
         1,0,0   100) 'MATSHITA' 'UJDA755zDVD/CDRW' '1.20' Removable CD-ROM
         1,1,0   101) *
         1,2,0   102) *
         1,3,0   103) *
         1,4,0   104) *
         1,5,0   105) *
         1,6,0   106) *
         1,7,0   107) *


[root at sam pkg]# cdrecord dev=help

[snip]

Supported SCSI transports for this platform:

Transport name:         sg
Transport descr.:       Generic transport independent SCSI
Transp. layer ind.:
Target specifier:       bus,target,lun
Target example:         1,2,0
SCSI Bus scanning:      supported
Open via UNIX device:   not supported

Transport name:         pg
Transport descr.:       SCSI transport for ATAPI over Parallel Port
Transp. layer ind.:
Target specifier:       bus,target,lun
Target example:         1,2,0
SCSI Bus scanning:      supported
Open via UNIX device:   not supported

Transport name:         ATA
Transport descr.:       ATA Packet specific SCSI transport
Transp. layer ind.:     ATAPI:
Target specifier:       bus,target,lun
Target example:         ATAPI:1,2,0
SCSI Bus scanning:      supported
Open via UNIX device:   not supported

Transport name:         ATA
Transport descr.:       ATA Packet specific SCSI transport using sg interface
Transp. layer ind.:     ATA:
Target specifier:       bus,target,lun
Target example:         1,2,0
SCSI Bus scanning:      supported
Open via UNIX device:   not supported

Transport name:         RSCSI
Transport descr.:       Remote SCSI
Transp. layer ind.:     REMOTE:
Target specifier:       rscsi at host:bus,target,lun
Target example:         REMOTE:rscsi at host:1,2,0
SCSI Bus scanning:      supported
Open via UNIX device:   not supported

## Some trial commands.  All failed with variations on the messages
## produced by the command given above.

[root at sam pkg]# cdrecord dev=ATA:2,2,2 -speed=4 -v -dao -pad FC3-i386-DVD.iso
[root at sam pkg]# cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -speed=4 -v -dao -data -pad FC3-i386-DVD.iso
[root at sam pkg]# cdrecord dev=2,2,2 -speed=4 -v -dao -pad FC3-i386-DVD.iso
[root at sam pkg]# cdrecord dev=ATAPI:2,2,2 -speed=4 -v -dao -pad FC3-i386-DVD.iso
[root at sam pkg]# cdrecord dev=ATA:2,2,2 -speed=4 -v -dao -pad FC3-i386-DVD.iso
[root at sam pkg]# cdrecord dev=1,0,0 -speed=4 -v -dao -pad FC3-i386-DVD.iso
[root at sam pkg]#


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