DVD media not recognised

[jhoderd]

Hi all,

I am trying to burn a DVD using cdrecord on my FC3.
The burner is a Plextor 716A, which supposedly handles
both DVD+R and DVD-R.

Anyway, I have managed to burn a CDR without any problems.
However, when I try to burn a DVD+R, cdrecord just quits after
a while.

I suspect that it might be something related with the media itself,
because when I place an empty DVD on the drive, I get constant
messages on /var/log/messages:


ATAPI device hdb:
Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
Unable to recover table of contents -- (asc=0x57, ascq=0x00)
The failed "Read Cd/Dvd Capacity" packet command was:
"25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "


Now, are these messages normal, or is there something fishy really going on?

Thanks in advance for your help!
Jean

[brahms]

You are better off using growisofs to burn DVDs. This page http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ is well worth taking the time to read.