[Fwd: Problems burning files to DVD+R]

Michael T. Richter ttmrichter at gmail.com
Sun Apr 8 22:16:10 UTC 2007


I sent this to the wrong mailing list by accident.  Here it is on the
right one.

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> From: Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: ttmrichter at gmail.com
> To: Ubuntu Sounder <sounder at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Bcc: ttmrichter at gmail.com
> Subject: Problems burning files to DVD+R
> Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:14:30 +0800
> 
> Running Ubuntu Edgy on hardware which hasn't changed since last year
> July using media from the same stack of 50 I've been using for three
> months I've suddenly run into a complete inability to write to DVD+R.
> When I try to go through GNOME, here's the sequence:
> 
> 1. I put the disk into my (external, USB2) DVD+R drive.
> 2. GNOME detects the media and asks what I want to do.
> 3. Whether I give it files in the burner interface or tell it to go
> away and try to burn a premade ISO file, I get, instantly, with no
> hint of an attempt to access the bus, a dialog with the following
> message:
> 
> 
>         Insert a rewritable or blank disc
>         Please put a disc, with at least 3.6 GiB free, into the drive.
>         The following disc types are supported:
> 
> 
> The list implied by the colon is empty.  What you see above is the
> entire message.  So, deciding that maybe I'm going to have to go to
> the command line to solve this, I switch to a shell and type:
> 
> $ dvdrecord -scanbus
> dvdrtools v0.2.1
> Portions (C) 2002-2005 Ark Linux <bero at arklinux.org>
> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> it under
> the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
> Software
> Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
> 
> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
> WITHOUT ANY
> WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
> FITNESS FOR
> A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more
> details.
> 
> You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> along with
> this program; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
> Software
> Foundation, 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
> Based on:
> Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�rg
> Schilling
> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.33
> Using libscg version 'bero-0.5a'
> dvdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (bero-0.5a
> '@(#)scsitransp.c     1.81 01/04/20 Copyright 1988,1995,2000 J.
> Schilling').
> scsibus1:
>         1,0,0   100) 'TSSTcorp' 'CD/DVDW TS-H552L' 'CM00' Removable
> CD-ROM
>         1,1,0   101) *
>         1,2,0   102) *
>         1,3,0   103) *
>         1,4,0   104) *
>         1,5,0   105) *
>         1,6,0   106) *
>         1,7,0   107) *
> 
> $ dvdrecord dev=1,0,0 -dao Movies_5.iso
> 
> At this point I get activity on the drive, at least -- it doesn't puke
> up a meaningless error message right away with no hint of activity.
> Instead it churns on the drive and looks for all the world like it's
> doing what it's supposed to be doing.  For about 15 seconds.  Then I
> get this:
> 
> dvdrtools v0.2.1
> Portions (C) 2002-2005 Ark Linux <bero at arklinux.org>
> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> it under
> the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
> Software
> Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
> 
> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
> WITHOUT ANY
> WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
> FITNESS FOR
> A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more
> details.
> 
> You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> along with
> this program; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
> Software
> Foundation, 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
> Based on:
> Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�rg
> Schilling
> scsidev: '1,0,0'
> scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.33
> Using libscg version 'bero-0.5a'
> dvdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (bero-0.5a
> '@(#)scsitransp.c     1.81 01/04/20 Copyright 1988,1995,2000 J.
> Schilling').
> Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
> Version        : 0
> Response Format: 2
> Capabilities   : 
> Vendor_info    : 'TSSTcorp'
> Identifikation : 'CD/DVDW TS-H552L'
> Revision       : 'CM00'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD.
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
> Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
> Supported modes: PACKET SAO
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in write mode for single session.
> Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation
> starts.
> trackno=0
> dvdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
> CDB:  2A 00 00 1D 16 46 00 00 1F 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 21 02 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x02 (logical block address out of range) [No
> matching qualifier] Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
> resid: 63488
> cmd finished after 0.007s timeout 200s
> write track data: error after 0 bytes
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 
> At this point I don't know where to even begin to continue.  What's
> the next step in getting one of the following to happen:
> a) GNOME's burning interface working the way it worked before instead
> of not even trying before throwing its hands up in seeming ennui.
> b) As a distant second place in preference, dvdrecord working (or at
> least giving useful information explaining why it's not working
> instead of hexadecimal vomit).
> 
> -- 
> Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com> (GoogleTalk:
> ttmrichter at gmail.com)
> In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will
> know the man. (孔夫子)

-- 
Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com> (GoogleTalk:
ttmrichter at gmail.com)
In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will
know the man. (孔夫子)
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