Re: problems recording DVD

[Alan]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, John Wendel wrote:
> Martin Marques wrote:
> > Sorry for making the thread wait, but I was upgradeing my system to FC6.
> >
> > Mark Knoop escribió:
> > > On 20/01/07, 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:
> >
> > New info:
> >
> > # uname -a
> > Linux linus.marques 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Jan 10 19:28:18 EST 2007 
> > 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
> > BD/DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by , version 7.0.
> > 4.7GB DVD+RW media detected.
> > formatting 0.0/:-[ CLOSE SESSION failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=06h]:
> >
> > Wrong medium type
> >
> > # dvd+rw-format -lead-out -force /dev/hdc
> > BD/DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by , version 7.0.
> > 4.7GB DVD+RW media detected.
> > formatting 0.0|:-[ CLOSE SESSION failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=06h]:
> >
> > Wrong medium type
> > > What do you get from:
> > >
> > > dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/hdc
> >
> > # dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/hdc
> > INQUIRY:                [SONY    ][DVD RW DW-G120A ][MYS1]
> > GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
> >  Mounted Media:         1Ah, DVD+RW
> >  Media ID:              OPTODISC/OP4

Here is the problem.

According the media guide on digitalfaq.com, OPTODISC is "4th class 
media".  They describe 4th class as "Pathetic garbage media, landfill 
material, about 0-50% success rate".

you need to find a better supply of DVD media.