Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Help with Sony DRX-500ULX drive

[Scott Savarese]

I've been playing with prodvd and it isn't completely reliable. I am
having problems blanking a disk. Also as said here... The drive supports
tao but for some reason I can't write in TAO.

cdrecord-wrapper just called cdrecord-prodvd.

Here is the output of some blank commands.

Thanks,
Scott


address@hidden:/home/savarese# ./cdrecord-wrapper.sh -dev 2,0,0 -blank=fast
Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a12 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003
Jörg Schilling
Unlocked features: ProDVD Clone
Limited  features: speed
This copy of cdrecord is licensed for:
private/research/educational_non-commercial_use
scsidev: '2,0,0'
scsibus: 2 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'SONY    '
Identifikation : 'DVD RW DRU-500A '
Revision       : '2.0f'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+RW driver (mmc_dvdplusrw).
Driver flags   : DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
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: Canot blank with non Ricoh based drive.
./cdrecord-ProDVD: Cannot blank disk, aborting.
./cdrecord-ProDVD: Some drives do not support all blank types.
./cdrecord-ProDVD: Try again with cdrecord blank=all.
address@hidden:/home/savarese#

address@hidden:/home/savarese# ./cdrecord-wrapper.sh -dev 2,0,0 -blank=all
Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a12 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003
Jörg Schilling
Unlocked features: ProDVD Clone
Limited  features: speed
This copy of cdrecord is licensed for:
private/research/educational_non-commercial_use
scsidev: '2,0,0'
scsibus: 2 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'SONY    '
Identifikation : 'DVD RW DRU-500A '
Revision       : '2.0f'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+RW driver (mmc_dvdplusrw).
Driver flags   : DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
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: Canot blank with non Ricoh based drive.
./cdrecord-ProDVD: Cannot blank disk, aborting.


Volker Kuhlmann said:
>> did you also try the Sony DRX-500ULX USB2 drive with the OSS DVD
>> extensions for cdrtools-2.0 ? :
>
> Patience patience - I'm getting to that ;)
> I no longer have access to the drive, but was able to borrow it for a
> few hours yesterday.
>
> Firmware upgraded to 2.0 on the drive.
>       0,0,0     0) 'SONY    ' 'DVD RW DRU-500A ' '2.0f' Removable CD-ROM
> Connected via ieee1394, the box only has USB1 which works fine with this
> drive for everything but writing DVDs. Kernel 2.4.20, SuSE 8.2. I wanted
> to know what my options would be for writing DVDs. Due to bad timing the
> supply of DVD+RW had run out this week, so I could only test DVD-RW.
>
> growisofs: complains about "mounted media is not DVD+R(W)". Sorry no
> testing this with +RW this time.
>
> I assume cdrecord-ossdvd is identical to dvdrecord, except that it is
> based on cdrecord 2. Is this correct Robert? In that case, dvdrecord
> should be committed to the attic, and I didn't test it.
>
> With cdrecord-ossdvd, -load, -eject, blank=fast are working fine. -toc
> works if the disk has something on it, it gives a scsi error otherwise:
>
>   cdrecord-ossdvd: Input/output error. read toc: scsi sendcmd: no error
> CDB:  43 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00
>   status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
>   Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 19 44 4A 93 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00
>   Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
>   Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0
>   Sense flags: Blk 423905939 (not valid)
>   cmd finished after 0.004s timeout 40s
>   cdrecord-ossdvd: Cannot read TOC header
>   cdrecord-ossdvd: Cannot read TOC/PMA
>
> In some (all?) cases cdrecord-prodvd gives a scsi error too for -toc on
> a blank disk.
>
> There are other downsides to cdrecord-ossdvd. -atip doesn't ever seem to
> show anything useful. Writing in TAO (i.e. default) mode failed:
>
>   Supported modes: PACKET SAO
>   Drive buf size : 4718592 = 4608 KB
>   FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
>   cdrecord-ossdvd: Drive does not support TAO recording.
>   cdrecord-ossdvd: Illegal write mode for this drive.
>
> This appears to be nonsense, as cdrecord-prodvd says:
>
>   Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
>   Drive buf size : 4718592 = 4608 KB
>   FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
>   Track 01: data  3906 MB         padsize:   30 KB
>   Total size:     3906 MB = 2000015 sectors
>   Current Secsize: 2048
>   Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks remaining: 298481
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in real TAO mode for single
> session.
>
> Writing to a blanked DVD-RW fails with:
>
>   cdrecord-ossdvd dev=0,0,0 speed=1 -data -dao -v /data/tmp/diskimg
> ========================================================================
> scsidev: '0,0,0'
>   scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
>   Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
>   cdrecord-ossdvd: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code
> version (address@hidden
> '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c  1.75 02/10/21 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
> Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
>   Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
>   atapi: 1
>   Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
>   Version        : 2
>   Response Format: 2
>   Capabilities   :
>   Vendor_info    : 'SONY    '
>   Identifikation : 'DVD RW DRU-500A '
>   Revision       : '2.0f'
>   Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
>   Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
>   Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
>   Supported modes: PACKET SAO
>   Drive buf size : 4718592 = 4608 KB
>   FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
>   Track 01: data  3906 MB
>   Total size:     4486 MB (444:26.66) = 2000000 sectors
>   Lout start:     4486 MB (444:28/50) = 2000000 sectors
>   Current Secsize: 2048
>     ATIP start of lead in:  -150 (00:00/00)
>   Disk type:    unknown dye (reserved id code)
>   Manuf. index: -1
>   Manufacturer: unknown (not in table)
>   Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks remaining: 298496
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in real SAO mode for single
> session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 9
> seconds.   8 seconds.   7
> seconds.   6 seconds.   5
> seconds.   4 seconds.   3
> seconds.   2 seconds.   1
> seconds.   0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for
> reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. BURN-Free
> is ON.
>   Performing OPC...
>   Sending CUE sheet...
>   Starting new track at sector: 2000166
>   Track 01:    0 of 3906 MB written.cdrecord-ossdvd: Input/output
> error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB:  2A 00 00 1E 85 26 00 00
> 1F 00
>   status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
>   Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 19 44 4A 93 0A 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00
>   Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
>   Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0
>   Sense flags: Blk 423905939 (not valid)
>   cmd finished after 0.003s timeout 200s
>   Sense Bytes: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>
>   write track data: error after 0 bytes
>
> I used the binary I compiled myself, starting with the SuSE cdrecord
> (patched) source and adding Robert's dvd patch.
>
> Unfortunately, I have to conclude the cdrecord-prodvd seems to be the
> only program which can currently be relied upon, although the problem in
> -ossdvd seems fixable. There doesn't seem to be much going on with Linux
> and dvd development atm though.
>
> Volker
>
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