Burning backup to dvd

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 26 July 2006 17:17, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >
> > I found one Imation DVD-R and issued the burn command again, and to my
> > surprise it burned immediately.  The burn area looks about the right
> > size, too, but I can't read it.  I'm guessing that it's not fixed.  Do
> > you think that's it?
>
> I've only ever seen that with DVD+R media before. I fixate those with
> cdrecord:
>
> # cdrecord -v -fix
>
It was worth a try, but no luck:

cdrecord: Found DVD media: using cdr_mdvd.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 1602048 = 1564 KB
Current Secsize: 2048
  ATIP start of lead out: 157789 (35:05/64)
scsi_set_streaming
Speed set to 11080 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed   8.0 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
trackno=1
BURN-Free is ON.
Turning BURN-Free off
BURN-Free is OFF.
cdrecord: Turning BURN-Free on
cdrecord: Success. reserve track: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  53 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.100s timeout 40s
cdrecord: Cannot open new session.

Anne
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