problems recording DVD
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Wed Jan 31 23:27:47 UTC 2007
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 <martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar> 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 <appro at fy.chalmers.se>, 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 <appro at fy.chalmers.se>, 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.
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