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(a)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(a)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(a)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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