Hi All, I just heard back from Andy Polyakov who authored the dvd+rw-format and growisofs programs. Apparently my drive is a derivitive of the Ricoh MP5120A which is incapable of writing to DVD+R media. I guess we'll just have to purchase the more expensive DVD+RW media for this drive. More information is at http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ http://acd.ucar.edu/~fredrick/linux/dvd/ Cheryl On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:36:49PM -0800, Cheryl L. Southard wrote: > Hi All, > > We've got a RedHat Linux 8.0 computer with a Philips DVD+RW-D01 > drive. This is the DVD+RW drive that Dell ships out with > their workstations. > > This drive reads and writes CD+R and DVD+RW just fine. However, > I am having problems getting it to write to a DVD+R disk. > I pop a fresh DVD+R disk into the drive, then type this: > > growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -R -J /var/spool/anacron > Executing 'mkisofs -R -J /var/spool/anacron | dd of=/dev/scd0 obs=32k se > ek=0' > :-[ SENSE KEY=5h/ASC=30h/ASCQ=10h ] > :-( write failed: Invalid argument > > It also fails if I try to write a pre-made iso file to the drive. > >From what I've read, the "dvd+rw-format" isn't necessary on > a DVD+R disk, and in fact will make the DVD+R unreadable for > any future "growisofs" writes. > > We are running: > cdrtools-cdrecord-1.11a23-1 > cdrtools-cdda2wav-1.11a23-1 > cdrtools-mkisofs-1.11a23-1 > xcdroast-0.98alpha10-1 > dvd+rw-tools-4.1.3.0.3 > > Does anyone know how to write to a DVD+R disk in Linux 8.0? > > Thanks, > > Cheryl > -- > Cheryl Southard > cld@astro.caltech.edu > > > > > --__--__-- -- Cheryl Southard cld@astro.caltech.edu -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
