Description of Problem: Installed new HP 100i DVD+RW burner, and it seems to work unless I try to burn an image larger than "100 minutes" to a DVD+RW media. dvdrecord bombs out with the message: [root@ckk skipjack]# dvdrecord -vv -eject -dao driver=mmc_cd_dvd \ Skipjack-i386-dvd.iso dvdrtools v0.1.3 Portions (c) 2002 Red Hat, Inc. Based on: Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jvrg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '1,0,0' scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' Using libscg transport code version 'schily-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.69' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'HP ' Identifikation : 'DVD Writer 100j ' Revision : '1.34' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. dvdrecord: WARNING: Trying to use other driver on known device. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD/DVD driver (checks media) (mmc_cd_dvd). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 1544 MB track: 1 start: 0 pregap: 150 Total size: 1773 MB (175:42.93) = 790720 sectors Lout start: 1773 MB (175:44/70) = 790720 sectors 41 00 00 14 00 00 00 00 41 01 00 10 00 00 00 00 41 01 01 10 00 00 02 00 41 AA 01 14 00 AF 2C 46 Track 1 start 0 Track 2 start 790720 41 00 A0 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 41 00 A1 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 41 00 A2 00 00 00 00 FF 44 70 00 00 41 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 Current Secsize: 2048 dvdrecord: Unspecified command not implemented for this drive. dvdrecord: Data will not fit on any disk. dvdrecord: Cannot write CD's >= 100 minutes. * Does the same thing if I don't specify the driver= except it's detected as a mmc2/CD-R drive.su -
Found a small kernel patch for the sr module that enables you to simply cat or dd an image to the DVD+RW drive. It applies cleanly w/fuzz to the 2.4.18-X kernels and seems to work just fine. Also includes userspace tools to format DVD+RW disks (does not require kernel patch) and Location is: http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
This is still the case with (null).
Kernel patch not required. Userland tools work without kernel modification now, same URL.
Hi Chris, I'd just like to verify what you're asking for here as I've just been assigned this package. You're wanting the DVD+RW tools at the above URL to be added to the distribution?
Yes, if they pass technical muster. DVD+RW drives are not compatible with dvdrecord, cdrecord or cdrdao for writing DVD+R or DVD+RW disks (they work fine with them for burning standard CD's). I have had no trouble with writing DVD+RW disks using these userland tools. The kernel patch is not needed, but with it it is possible to simply 'dd' a DVD iso to the drive and it will write. That funcionality is accomplished using growisofs in userland, and seems a better move. I had made a simple RPM of these for my own use (on my ftp://people page) but I have not checked for updates since then.
The author of the code I packaged wrote me to say he has updated the code, and created a (hopefully) proper Makefile and .spec file and it is available on his website noted above. He would be really happy if Red Hat picked up his project and made it a part of the distribution.
assigning to master of os-develdept :)
FYI- since my lst update, support was added to dvd+rw-tools for DVD-RW and DVD-R in addition to DVD+RW and DVD+R. A src.rpm and i386.rpm of his latest code (as of Feb.28,2003) is available on my people page. ftp://people.redhat.com/ckloiber/dvd+rw-tools-5.2.4.1.4/
included in RHEL 3 and Fedora Core 1