Re: DVD Writing Issue

gary wrote:

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 17:47 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:

On 4/2/06, gary <garys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:47 -0700, Usman S. Ansari wrote:

gary wrote:

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

Are you saying that this is not a Writer, or is not reconigzed as a
writer by Linux ? (see blow output of cdrecord).

On other hand, if there is a DVD writter which work well with Linux, let
me know and I can probably exchange for it.

Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
this version.
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 Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c
1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
scsibus1:
       1,0,0   100) 'SONY    ' 'CD-RW CRX1611   ' 'TYS3' Removable CD-ROM
       1,1,0   101) 'MATSHITA' 'DVD-RAM SW-9585 ' 'B100' Removable CD-ROM
       1,2,0   102) *
       1,3,0   103) *
       1,4,0   104) *
       1,5,0   105) *
       1,6,0   106) *
       1,7,0   107) *

   When I look at the output I see that your Sony will write cds . When
I  look at your Matshita I don't
see write capabilities BUT I've never seen "DVD-RAM" before. If I run
"cdrecord  -scanbus" my HP will
be described as HP dvd-writer. As an end-user, who hasn't used the
command line to write cds since
Redhat 9  I'd suggest that you try k3b or xcdroast - also verify
whether or not the Matshita is indeed a writer.
So far, I'm a fan of HP DVDwriters.       --gary

Over the past year a new class of DVD writers, super-multi, have
appeared. These drives have the ability to write to DVD-RAM, as well
as the other, better known, media. More recent, high-end, drives
incorporate of ability of writing to the various media types as well
as provide disc labeling (Lightscribe).

Thanks - thats good to know. --gary

:-[ READ DISC INFORMATION failed with SK=4h/ASC=08h/ACQ=03h]: