Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > xfburn claims burn mode isn't implemented yet,
I wrote: > > Sounds like > > https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1952263#p1952263 > > Proposed remedy is to click at the button with the circular arrow beneath > > a text field which tells the medium type (in that case "DVD+R"). Gene Heskett wrote: > interesting & thank you, it refused to write a staples brand dvd+rw, it went > thru the motions of formating the disk several times, then didn't recognize > the disk even if ejected and reinserted, but is working just as expected on > a virgin Sony brand dvd+rw. Congrats to the success. It would be really interesting to see whether xorriso with its diagnostic messages can tell anything enlightening about the problem with the other DVD+RW media. Since DVD+RW are re-usable, it would be no waste of media if you try in a shell terminal with appropriate path texts in "drive" and "image": drive=/dev/sr0 image=...path.to.the.image.file... xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev="$drive" fs=16m -eject "$image" 2>&1 | tee -i /tmp/xorriso.log The messages will show up in the terminal window and also be copied to the file /tmp/xorriso.log . This file would be interesting for me to see. So if you can send it to me in private i will inspect it for clues and report them to this mailing list. If the run fails and stays obscure, then we could even watch the SCSI command dialog of libburn and the drive by help of an additional option in the xorriso run. This would become very verbose. If the run is successful, then the GUI programs are thinking too much about things which they should better leave to their burn backends. > In 2 different dvd writers in this machine, If you do not know which one is /dev/sr0 and which is /dev/sr1, then you may do xorriso -devices which will tell vendor and model of the drives, like: 0 -dev '/dev/sr0' rwrw-- : 'HL-DT-ST' 'BDDVDRW GGC-H20L' 1 -dev '/dev/sr1' rwrw-- : 'ASUS ' 'BW-16D1HT' ("HL-DT-ST" = "Hitachi-LG Data Storage" drives are usually labeled "LG". If this does not give the decisive clue, insert the medium into the desired drive while having the other drive empty, and do xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 xorriso -outdev /dev/sr1 The one with the DVD+RW is supposed to report on stderr: ... Media current: DVD+RW ... whereas the empty drive will report: ... Media current: is not recognizable ... Have a nice day :) Thomas
