Problems with writing dvds

[Margaret Doll]

Mark,

	I am successful at writing cds to the /dev/hdb drive, but not dvds.   
I was
wondering if my drive can't deal with a 16x dvd.


	Sorry I don't know what "bounced" means on a system.


On Mar 18, 2008, at 8:49 AM, mark wrote:

> Margaret Doll wrote:
>> I have gone through the regular up2date sequences, but have made no
>> major upgrades to the system.  This is a production system, so I  
>> have to
>> keep it running.
>>
> Ahhhh, I just looked at your error messages more closely. Do I  
> understand
> correctly, that this has two DVD drives, and one's read-only? Has  
> the system
> bounced since the last time you successfully wrote to it?
>
> If the answer's yes to both, then it may be that the system swapped  
> them for
> some reason, and you're trying to write to the readonly drive.
>
> 	mark
>>
>> On Mar 17, 2008, at 8:04 PM, mark wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Margaret,
>>>
>>> Margaret Doll wrote:
>>>> I know I used to be able to write dvds from my RedHat system.
>>>
>>> Have you upgraded, or made changes to the system?
>>>
>>>    mark
>>>>
>>>> I used to use
>>>>
>>>> growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=16 -Z /dev/hdb=Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso
>>>>
>>>> but I get the error message:
>>>>
>>>> :-( /dev/hdb: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: 0
>>>>
>>>> I have tried using both  imation dvd-r/16x and
>>>>                   Memorex dvd+r/16x
>>>>
>>>> cdrecord -v speed=16 dev=/dev/hdb name.iso        - works, so I  
>>>> know
>>>>   that the device that I am using is correct.
>>>>
>>>> cdrecord -scanbus
>>>>
>>>>    0,0,0     0) 'TSSTcorp' 'DVD-ROM TS-H352C' 'DE02' Removable CD- 
>>>> ROM
>>>>       0,1,0     1) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD+-RW GWA4164B' 'D108' Removable
>>>> CD-ROM
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> uname -a     -    2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP
>>>> rpm -aq cdrecord        -    cdrecord-2.01.1-5
>>>>
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