On Friday 24 January 2003 04:11 am, Hank Marquardt wrote: > -scanbus shows > scsibus0: > 0,0,0 0) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-RW DVR-105 ' '1.00' Removable CD-ROM > > I did not do the source dance, but rather simply installed the binary > packages for everything. I did find I have to use -dao and actually > build an iso image (I normally just pipe mkisofs to cdrecord for CDs) > so it knows the image size ... but even with those I still get media > unknown errors ... and that's using the media supplied with the drive, > in this case a DVD-R > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:21:16PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Thursday 23 January 2003 05:25 pm, Hank Marquardt wrote: > > > OK, I admit I'm throwing in the towel without exhasting every > > > google link and every FAQ, but I just want to burn a darned DVD > > > .... > > > > > > What packages and magic to I need to conjur to make this occur? > > > > > > The drive and all scsi-emu stuff is in place, I just keep getting > > > various and sundry errors trying to actually burn something. > > > > > > "Unknown media" is a popular one ... but others as well. > > > > > > Anyone have success here? I'm running unstable and have cdrecord, > > > dvdrecord, dvd+rw-tools, mkisofs and probably lots of others > > > installed ... just trying to cross the void ...
> > > Hank Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > http://web.yerpso.net > > > > Hard to say from the info provided :) This burner doesn't do dvd+rw > > only dvd-r/w. I have the same burner, I have a Woody system and I > > compiled dvdrecord from unstable sources, 'apt-get source -b > > dvdrecord'. I did notice on another box (unstable) that the latest > > version of dvdrecord 1.3.x didn't work, media errors. Reverting back > > to the previous version of dvdrecord fixed it though. > > > > What do you get from 'dvdrecord -scanbus' or /cat /proc/scsi/scsi' ? > > > > dvdrecord does't have any special depends, works just like cdrecord. > > -- > > Greg Madden > > Hank Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There is a list that has some good info on dvd recording, if you haven't see it yet. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]