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Mark Carroll

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Mar 13, 2003, 1:59:31 PM3/13/03
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How do I burn a UDF FS onto a blank DVD-R with a Panasonic LF-D311?
(It reports itself as a Matshita LF-D310 rev. A113.) It works fine for
CD-ROM and DVD-RAM stuff through my 2.4.18 kernel's SCSI emulation but
even my version 2.0-2 of cdrecord-dvdhack fails, and I'd like to stick
to Free software if possible, avoiding that ProDVD thing.

cdrecord-dvdhack says,

Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder found on this target.

In case this is because of a failing media check with a blank DVD-R I
try "driver=mmc_mdvd", which changes the message to,

WARNING: Trying to use other driver on known device.

...then dumps me back to the shell.

Even the regular stable Debian cdrecord gives me that "unsupported
CD/DVD-Recorder" problem, but with a CD-R in the tray and with
"driver=mmc_cdr" it instead says,

Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
cdrecord: CD/DVD-Recorder not ready.

so maybe it's a more general problem with that model of drive? Can
anyone get cdrecord or some other Free software to get it to write to
anything other than DVD-RAMs under Linux?

-- Mark

Dances With Crows

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Mar 13, 2003, 2:14:05 PM3/13/03
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On 13 Mar 2003 18:59:31 +0000 (GMT), Mark Carroll staggered into the

Black Sun and said:
> How do I burn a UDF FS onto a blank DVD-R with a Panasonic LF-D311?

Use mkisofs -udf (options) , pipe the output to dvdrecord.

> cdrecord-dvdhack says,
> Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder found on this
> target.

What is cdrecord-dvdhack? Is this a spinoff of dvdrecord?

> Even the regular stable Debian cdrecord gives me that "unsupported
> CD/DVD-Recorder" problem

cdrecord will not work for recording DVDs. Ever. Try dvdrecord
instead; it's somewhere on nongnu.org , or you can just Google for
it....

>, but with a CD-R in the tray and with "driver=mmc_cdr" it instead
>says,
>

> cdrecord: CD/DVD-Recorder not ready.
>
> so maybe it's a more general problem with that model of drive?

Good question. What's dmesg say after you've tried something like
dvdrecord? SCSI errors?

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Peter Christy

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Mar 13, 2003, 2:16:36 PM3/13/03
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Try using dvdrecord instead of cdrecord (Google should find it).

It's a fork of cdrecord. Works for me with a Pioneer DVR-105.

UDF writing is highly experimental. However, I've succeeded in writing large
video files to DVD by firstly using mkisofs to create an iso image, then
burning the image, ie:

mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -o myiso.iso sourcedir/

(this will create an iso file called myiso.iso from the contents of the
directory 'sourcedir')

Then:

dvdrecord -dao speed=2 dev=0,0,0 myiso.iso

This burns the file myiso.iso to device 0,0,0 (scsi emulation)

Biggest file to date, 3.8GB without problems, though depending on the media,
you may need the "-force" option.

Works for me, but it isn't a "drag and drop" solution....

--
Pete
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Mark Carroll

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Mar 13, 2003, 3:27:05 PM3/13/03
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In article <slrnb71m5i.dpv....@samantha.crow202.dyndns.org>,

Dances With Crows <dancesw...@usa.net> wrote:
>On 13 Mar 2003 18:59:31 +0000 (GMT), Mark Carroll staggered into the
>Black Sun and said:
(snip)

>> Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder found on this
>> target.
>
>What is cdrecord-dvdhack? Is this a spinoff of dvdrecord?

It's cdrecord with basic DVD support - I think it's based on Nicolae
Mihalache's DVD-recording patch for cdrecord.

>> Even the regular stable Debian cdrecord gives me that "unsupported
>> CD/DVD-Recorder" problem
>
>cdrecord will not work for recording DVDs. Ever. Try dvdrecord
>instead; it's somewhere on nongnu.org , or you can just Google for
>it....

Okay, I've now found and installed dvdrecord. It's giving exactly the
same output as cdrecord-dvdhack did; then again, Joerg Schilling
suggests that it's also based on Nicolae's patch, so maybe they're
pretty much the same program.

(snip)


>> so maybe it's a more general problem with that model of drive?
>
>Good question. What's dmesg say after you've tried something like
>dvdrecord? SCSI errors?

None, with or without "driver=mmc_mdvd". Same for trying to burn a
CD-R with or without "driver=mmc_cdr". The only SCSI errors there are
are from when I tried to mount blank media to make sure that nothing
had been burned onto it.

-- Mark

Mark Carroll

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Mar 13, 2003, 4:21:52 PM3/13/03
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In article <hss*ev...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
Mark Carroll <ma...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
(snip)

>Even the regular stable Debian cdrecord gives me that "unsupported
>CD/DVD-Recorder" problem, but with a CD-R in the tray and with
>"driver=mmc_cdr" it instead says,
(snip)

This turns out to not be surprising -
http://www.panasonic.com/industrial/computer/storage/dvdram/prods/specs/d311.htm
doesn't say that the thing can burn CD-Rs! So, it's only the DVD
burning I'll try to chase after.

-- Mark

Mark Carroll

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Mar 13, 2003, 4:19:15 PM3/13/03
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In article <hss*ev...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
Mark Carroll <ma...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
(snip)
>Even the regular stable Debian cdrecord gives me that "unsupported
>CD/DVD-Recorder" problem, but with a CD-R in the tray and with
>"driver=mmc_cdr" it instead says,

Mark Carroll

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Mar 13, 2003, 4:31:12 PM3/13/03
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Argh, sorry about that - broken news system. ):

-- Mark

Mark Carroll

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Mar 13, 2003, 4:29:23 PM3/13/03
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In article <hss*ev...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
Mark Carroll <ma...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
(snip)
>Even the regular stable Debian cdrecord gives me that "unsupported
>CD/DVD-Recorder" problem, but with a CD-R in the tray and with
>"driver=mmc_cdr" it instead says,
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