PX-708A (Plextor) DVD-Writer Burning Input/Output Error

garamatt · 01-27-2004, 08:18 PM

Hi,

My name is Matt, and I am new to DVD burning. In fact, I am quite new to linux, although I am trying very hard to become proficient at using linux.

I'd like to ask you guys a question, I have had a Windows XP installation and Linux installation before all this happened. During this time I was running Red Hat 9.0. I am currently running Fedora Core 1. FC1 (Fedora) automatically determined that I needed scsi-emulation for my dvd-writer and did it for me which is good- I think. By executing "lsmod" I get "ide-scsi", which means that scsi emulation is working good. Now when I go ahead and do this.......

[root@localhost bin]# dvdburnpro -dummy -dao speed=4 dev=0,0,0 /home/mateusz/about_schmidt.img
Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.0 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J�g Schilling
Unlocked features: ProDVD Clone
Limited features:
This copy of cdrecord is licensed for: private/research/educational_non-commercial_use
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR '
Identifikation : 'DVDR PX-708A '
Revision : '1.03'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-2 DVD-R/DVD-RW driver (mmc_dvd).
Driver flags : DVD SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
WARNING: Phys disk size 2298496 differs from rzone size 2297888! Prerecorded disk?
WARNING: Phys start: 196608 Phys end 2495103
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting dummy write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
/opt/schily/bin/cdrecord-prodvd: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 1F 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 00 00 1F 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 31 (valid)
cmd finished after 0.200s timeout 100s
write track data: error after 63488 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

I get that ^^^^^^^. I do not know what Sense Key is but it spits out alot. The Linux sg driver seems to be doing perfectly fine, yet I get this input/output error. ARGGH! It must have something to do with the HARDWARE I determined.

Now as I had previously mentioned, at the time that I have RH9 and WinXP everything was working fine. (Perhaps RH9 is just better) But I get this suspicion that while I had WinXP installed, plextor automatically updated its firmware to the newest version. Somehow, RH9 was able to reap the benefits of this also. However, when I uninstalled WinXP, the firmware went along with it. Now Im stuck.

The plextor drive can be found in my /dev folder as /hdc.

Please help so I don't have to install RH9 to make sure that it is just Fedora Core that is messing up.

garamatt · 01-27-2004, 10:34 PM

Hmm, it seems that cdrtools, dvdrecord, and cdrecord-dvdPro are all not up to the task. The best way to burn a dvd is to use growisofs.

If anybody experiences the same problem as me then I suggest that you get growisofs from here . To make things clearer, you actually want to get the newest version of dvd+r tools from that site and install it. Growisofs is a command tool that is included in that package.

The following pseudo-short-tutorial about growisofs is intended to master a dvd-video image on your hardrive for burning. This usually means one directory with two sub-directories called: VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS.

To call growisofs it looks something like this:

Make a note that this is on the default setup in Fedora Core 1 (and probably most other linuxies)

Code:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z  /dev/scd0=<myimage.img>

Please understand that to call the above command you must have dvdr+ tools installed along with a proper DVD image. The

Code:

-dvd-compat

switch makes the DVD compatible with most stand-alone players. The

Code:

-Z

tells growisofs which hardware device links to your DVD-writer, on most linux systems this is /dev/scd0, for more info on this read the manual for growisofs.

Tho create a proper image for DVD burning, you should use mkisofs. The command for this would look something like this:

Code:

 mkisofs -dvd-video -o /<myimage.img>  -graft-points "/=/<path to folder containing desired contents>"

Note make sure that you take out the < and leave the " in the above command.

The

Code:

-dvd-video

switch makes mkisofs make a filesystem that is compliant with most standalone DVD players.

The

Code:

-o

switch points out the outputfile.

The

Code:

-graft-points "/=/<full directory>"

switch transfers the <full directory> to the root ("/") directory of the .img file.

Please note that you can use growisofs in conjungtion with mkisofs at the same time. So, in other words, you don't have to make the img first and then send it to burn through growisofs, but instead you can make and burn at the same time. You do it like this :

Code:

growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -dvd-video  -graft-points "/=/<path to folder containing desired contents>"

This will do exactly the samething as the two steps above in one step. If you're not sure what this means scroll up and read about the above two steps.

Thats all I have to say. Hope this helps.