Path: csiph.com!news.samoylyk.net!gothmog.csi.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: gene heskett Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: dvd+rw burner Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:20:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-user-request@lists.debian.org Tue Dec 17 14:14:55 2024 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.598 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -3.5 Auth-Sender: gheskett@shentel.net MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Beta Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Ctch-Spam: Unknown X-Ctch-Refid: str=0001.0A006370.6761874C.0026,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-Originalarrivaltime: 17 Dec 2024 14:14:36.0350 (UTC) FILETIME=[009E15E0:01DB508E] X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/818171 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/3997fadc-8e4d-4e9f-a00c-1328266d84f0@shentel.net Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 104 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:14:35 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <3997fadc-8e4d-4e9f-a00c-1328266d84f0@shentel.net> X-Original-References: <6ad355fa-e7f7-4f45-ade2-63c13b713dbd@shentel.net> <22723331638819974827@scdbackup.webframe.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.user:275823 On 12/17/24 04:23, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > 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 however, if the disk is re-inserted and: gene@coyote:~/AppImages$ xorriso -outdev /dev/sr1 xorriso 1.5.4 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project. Drive current: -outdev '/dev/sr1' Media current: DVD+RW Media status : is blank Media summary: 0 sessions, 0 data blocks, 0 data, 4483m free gene@coyote:~/AppImages$ Something definitely aglay with that disk. See line 190 of the 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 > > . Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis