On Wednesday 15 June 2005 03:06, Paul Howarth wrote: > Eric Tanguy wrote: > > Le mercredi 15 juin 2005 à 08:00 +0100, Paul Howarth a écrit : > >>On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 16:43 -0700, Mick Mearns wrote: > >>>Hello; > >>> When I fire up k3b and go to: > >>>settings->Configure k3b->Devices > >>> > >>>It says that the drive will not write DVD+R(RW)S > >>>That is not correct, it does and works under XP. > >>>I upgraded the BIOS to 1.10 with the same result. > >> > >>What does "cdrecord -prcap" say? > >> > >>That reports what the drive says it's capable of doing. > >> > >>Paul. > >>-- > >>Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > I have the same problem. > > The result is > > sudo cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom1 -prcap > > Password: > > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg > > Schilling > > 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/bugzilla > > Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in > > this version. > > scsidev: '/dev/cdrom1' > > devname: '/dev/cdrom1' > > scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 > > Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 > > Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. > > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code > > version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c > > 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). > > Device type : Removable CD-ROM > > Version : 0 > > Response Format: 1 > > Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR ' > > Identifikation : 'DVDR PX-708A ' > > Revision : '1.09' > > Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. > > > > Drive capabilities, per MMC-3 page 2A: > > > > Does read CD-R media > > Does write CD-R media > > Does read CD-RW media > > Does write CD-RW media > > Does read DVD-ROM media > > Does read DVD-R media > > Does write DVD-R media > > Does not read DVD-RAM media > > Does not write DVD-RAM media > > Does support test writing > > > > So it seems that device is not weel recognized. > > Eric > > I think it may be that cdrecord doesn't report DVD+R(W) capabilities at > all. Having just tried "cdrecord -prcap" on my own drive (which I > believe to be capable of writing DVD+R(W)), there again is no mention of > DVD+R(W). I've never actually tried writing that type of media. > > Does growisofs work? It's part of the dvd+rw-tools package and it is > supposed to understand DVD+R(W) media properly (see also > http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ for lots of technical > discussion). > > Paul. I'm using that drive with no problem. Try the following: growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=4(or what you want) -Z /dev/cdwriter=filename.iso HTH, Tom -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA Iraq war: 1,707 and counting
