Re: Need help with cdrecord on a DVD

From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/28/05 

Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:58:57 -0400

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:45:12 +0000, Unruh wrote:

> General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>>The command I'm using is
>>cdrecord -speed=4 -sao --dev=ATA:1,0,0 $1
>
>>I've also tried -dao and the default which is -tao. I'm getting the
>>following
>>cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do
>
> Run it as root. There are problems with cdrecord and the new scsi drivers
> in the newer kernels. Whose fault it is ai do not know (Schilling shouts
> loudly that it is the kernel people)

I tried it as root, still doesn't work. It looks like it's writing
something but the DVD isn't mountable.

scsidev: 'ATA:1,0,0'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
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').
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'HP '
Identifikation : 'DVD Writer 630c '
Revision : 'AH02'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
cdrecord: Found DVD media: using cdr_mdvd.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
scsi_set_streaming
Speed set to 11080 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8.0 in real SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 9 seconds. 8 seconds. 7 seconds. 6 seconds. 5 seconds. 4 seconds. 3 seconds. 2 seconds. 1 seconds. 0 seconds. Operation starts.
trackno=0
cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 2193954816/2193954816 (1071267 sectors).

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