On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 23:38 -0800, Usman S. Ansari wrote: > I have FC4 on my system and downloaded DVD image for FC5. Also bouth DVD > writer. Writer is identified as > > MATSHITADVD-RAM SW-9585, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > Tried to write to DVD using following command and got following errors > > growisofs -Z /dev/dvdwriter=/Big-Disk/images/FC-5-i386-DVD.iso > :-[ READ DISC INFORMATION failed with SK=4h/ASC=08h/ACQ=03h]: > Input/output error > > [root@usman Files]# growisofs -Z /dev/dvdwriter -R -J > /Big-Disk/lots_of_files > :-[ READ DISC INFORMATION failed with SK=4h/ASC=08h/ACQ=03h]: > Input/output error > > I am running 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 kernel > Is the MATSHITADVD-ROM SW-9585 - not MATSHITADVD-RAM SW-9585 ? So far, it looks to me as though neither registers as a dvdwriter. --gary
