LinuxQuestions.org - Cdrecord recognises drive; will not burn

Hi all,

(I know there are plenty of threads reporting problems with cdrecord.
I reckon that my conditions are different from those reported).

The problem:
I am trying to burn a DVD with cdrecord on FC3.
Cdrecord recognises the drive, but always complains that
"CD/DVD-Recorder not ready" when I try to burn.

The software versions:
kernel: 2.6.10-1.766_FC3
cdrecord: Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd

The hardware:
DVD burner is a Plextor PX-716A

The result from "cdrecord -scanbus":

Code:

root$ cdrecord -scanbus

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 

Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.

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').

scsibus0:

        0,0,0    0) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8163B' '0D20' Removable CD-ROM

        0,1,0    1) 'PLEXTOR ' 'DVDR  PX-716A  ' '1.02' Removable CD-ROM

        0,2,0    2) *

        0,3,0    3) *

        0,4,0    4) *

        0,5,0    5) *

        0,6,0    6) *

        0,7,0    7) *

The result from attempting to burn:

Code:

root$ cdrecord dev=/dev/hdb -v -dummy -dao dummy.iso

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 

Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.

TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM

scsidev: '/dev/hdb'

devname: '/dev/hdb'

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').

SCSI buffer size: 64512

atapi: 1

Device type    : Removable CD-ROM

Version        : 0

Response Format: 1

Vendor_info    : 'PLEXTOR '

Identifikation : 'DVDR  PX-716A  '

Revision      : '1.02'

Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.

Current: 0x0000

Profile: 0x002B

Profile: 0x001B

Profile: 0x001A

Profile: 0x0014

Profile: 0x0013

Profile: 0x0011

Profile: 0x0010

Profile: 0x000A

Profile: 0x0009

Profile: 0x0008

Using generic SCSI-3/mmc  CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).

Driver flags  : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE VARIREC FORCESPEED SPEEDREAD SINGLESESSION HIDECDR

Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R

Drive buf size : 8388608 = 8192 KB

Drive DMA Speed: 2318 kB/s 13x CD 1x DVD

FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB

Track 01: data    0 MB

Total size:        0 MB (00:04.98) = 374 sectors

Lout start:        1 MB (00:06/74) = 374 sectors

cdrecord: CD/DVD-Recorder not ready.

Mind you, I get the same error if I try any of the following devices instead of dev=/dev/hdb:

dev=0,1,0
dev=ATA:0,1,0
dev=ATAPI:0,1,0

Thanks in advance for your time and for any help you can give me!
Cheers,
Jean