cdrecord under Fedora Core 3

[Paul King]

Hello

I am trying to burn a DVD using CD/DVD-burning software. I have tried
two so far: cdrecord and Nautilus's CD/DVD Creator.

I have scsi_mod loaded. Any other modules need to be loaded?

Nautilus begins by "fixating" the DVD-rom (after indicating the ISO file
to be burned), and then exits with an unusable half-burned DVD-ROM and
no apparent error messages whatsoever. The status window just says
"Complete." immediately after fixation. (Isn't fixation supposed to be
the last step?)

cdrecord was invoked using the following command:
    cdrecord -v -speed=4 -dev=1,1,0 -data -eject 
         debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1.iso
The -dev was taken from the output of 'cdrecord -scanbus':

        [root at gandalf debian-dvd]# cdrecord -scanbus
        scsidev: 'ATA'
        devname: 'ATA'
        scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
        Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
        Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
        cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c        1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
        scsibus1:
        1,0,0   100) 'AOPEN   ' '16XDVD-ROM/AMH  ' 'R13 ' Removable CD-ROM
        1,1,0   101) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-RW  DVR-107D' '1.09' Removable CD-ROM

The Pioneer DVD recorder was used.

The error/status messages were as follows:

        cdrecord: No write mode specified.
        cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
        cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
        cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
        Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
        Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
        Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
        Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
        Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
        TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
        scsidev: '1,1,0'
        scsibus: 1 target: 1 lun: 0
        cdrecord: Success. Cannot open SCSI driver.
        cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
        cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

Another invocation I tried which generated infinitely more verbosity was
to mount the DVD ISO image on /mnt (using loopback), then running the
following command (with a different invocation of the device option):

mkisofs -R /mnt | cdrecord -v -speed=4 dev=/dev/hdd:@ - > errfile 2>&1

The Pioneer is indeed on /dev/hdd. And, even this kind of pipelining
into errfile did not catch all the output (even though it went to the
console - which suggests stdout or stderr, but is probably some weird
file descriptor). There are hundreds (perhaps over a thousand) lines
telling me things like:

        Using ZOPE_000.DEB;1 for  /mnt/pool/main/z/zope-cmf/zope-
        cmfcore_1.3.3-1_all.deb (zope-cmftopic_1.3.3-1_all.deb)

but the content of the error file is much shorter (but it still a bit
long):

        cdrecord: No write mode specified.
        cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
        cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
        cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
        scsidev: '/dev/hdd:@'
        devname: '/dev/hdd'
        scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
        Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
        cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c        1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
        SCSI buffer size: 64512
        cdrecord: Found DVD media: using cdr_mdvd.
        Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
        Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
        Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
        Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
        Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
        TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
        Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
        atapi: 1
        Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
        Version        : 0
        Response Format: 2
        Capabilities   : 
        Vendor_info    : 'PIONEER '
        Identifikation : 'DVD-RW  DVR-107D'
        Revision       : '1.09'
        Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
        Current: 0x0011
        Profile: 0x001B 
        Profile: 0x001A 
        Profile: 0x0014 
        Profile: 0x0013 
        Profile: 0x0011 (current)
        Profile: 0x0010 
        Profile: 0x000A 
        Profile: 0x0009 
        Profile: 0x0008 
        Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
        Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
        Supported modes: PACKET SAO
        Drive buf size : 1605632 = 1568 KB
        FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
        cdrecord: Drive does not support TAO recording.
        cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive.

Now, the command did not specify if I wanted TAO or not. cdrecord
assumes it by default. But a similar failure to write arises if I
specify -sao, -raw, or seemingly anything else.

Thanks for any help people may provide. Sorry about the length.

Paul King


--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml