On Saturday 20 January 2007 14:06, Martin Marques wrote: > Hi all, I'm having some trouble trying to record DVDs -RW and +RW. CDs > get burned OK, but not DVDs. All this on a FC3 system. > > Here's the info: > > # uname -a > Linux linus 2.6.12-1.1376_FC3 #1 Fri Aug 26 23:27:26 EDT 2005 i686 > athlon i386 GNU/Linux > > # dmesg | grep DVD > hdc: SONY DVD RW DW-G120A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > hdd: 50X CD-ROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66) > > # dvd+rw-format -lead-out /dev/hdc > * DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by <appro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, version 4.10. > * 4.7GB DVD+RW media detected. > * formatting /:-[ CLOSE SESSION failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=06h]: > Wrong medium type > > > growisofs also gives me a "Wrong medium type". All this was done with an > "Imation DVD+RW|4x". > > I tried googleing the problem but didn't find anything that would help > me with this problem. > > Any ideas? > Do you have dvd+rw-tools installed? You need it to burn DVDs. Anne
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