Re: [Dvdrtools-users] report with the Sony DRX500ULX

[Arndt Schoenewald]

Hi Samat!

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:33:57PM -0700, Samat Jain wrote:
> I've gotten my Sony DRX500ULX drive to burn discs in Linux. The
> DRX500ULX is the external IEEE-1394/USB 2.0 version of the DRU500A,
> pre-flashed with the 4x firmware. It's advertised to record both DVD+R/W
> and DVD-R/W discs, along with regular CDs.
> [...]
>
> cdrecord-ProDVD 2.0 doesn't work either. I get the error (when trying to
> blank a prerecorded disc):
> 
> WARNING: Phys disk size 2294800 differs from rzone size 0! Prerecorded disk?
> WARNING: Phys start: 196608 Phys end 2491407
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in real BLANK mode for single session.
> Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
> cdrecord-ProDVD: Input/output error. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: no error
> CDB:  A1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 7D 37 53 19 0A 00 00 00 00 30 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x00 (incompatible medium installed) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 2100777753 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 0.005s timeout 9600s
> cdrecord-ProDVD: Cannot blank disk, aborting.

Further down in your message you write you have only tested DVD+RW
disks, i.e. no DVD-RW. AFAIK, cdrecord-ProDVD currently only supports
the DVD-R and DVD-RW flavor; that could explain while blanking failed.

Anyway, thanks for sharing your experiences!

Arndt

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