[PLUG] dvd troubles

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

I just got a shiny new dvd RW, but I'm having some troubles.

It is configured all ready and read and writes CD-RW's flawlessly so
all the kernel/system/hw stuff is in working order.

Here's the trouble:

when I go to write/blank a dvd-rw, I get an annoying message:

Vendor_info    : 'HP      '
Identifikation : 'DVD Writer 200j '
Revision       : '1.06'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1310720 = 1280 KB
Current Secsize: 2048
  ATIP start of lead in:  -150 (00:00/00)
Disk type:    unknown dye (reserved id code)
Manuf. index: -1
Manufacturer: unknown (not in table)
Manufacturer is unknown because of the orange forum embargo.
As the orange forum likes to get money for recent information,
it may be that this media does not use illegal manufacturer coding.
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 11 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Performing OPC...
Blanking PMA, TOC, pregap
cdrecord: Input/output error. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  A1 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 30 05 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium - incompatible format) Fru
0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 9600s
cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting.


What's the orange forum embargo? Sounds really strange.

This is a brand new disk.

I left the vendor string in as well.

kernel is:

Linux xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 2.4.7-10smp #1 SMP Thu Sep 6 17:09:31 EDT 2001 i686 unknown

Whis is a stock rh kernel:

[root@gall] ~> cdrecord --version
Cdrecord 1.11a23 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jrg Schilling

This is fairly new and is supposed to support dvds.

Someone please help.

Thanks for reading this far. :)

Fred Ollinger (follinge@sas.upenn.edu)
CCN sysadmin


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