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

[Robert M. Stockmann]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:

> > > 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.
> > 
> > Yes i'm afraid so ...
> 
> What do you mean by "afraid"? There are too many different programs
> already, getting rid of a superseeded one is a bonus.
> 
> > speed=1 doesn't work, to put it better, the speed= command is not
> > implemented. All parameters are adjusted at insertion of your DVD-R(W)
> > media into the SONY drive. cdrecord-ossdvd cannot change those, neither
> > can dvdrecord (dvdrtools).
> 
> Ah, thanks for that info. The open-source patch for dvds doesn't contain
> speed control. Really nice would be to display a warning to that effect.
> 
> > >   write track data: error after 0 bytes
> > 
> > somehow i cannot believe this ... could you try these commands ? :
> 
> I'd love to, but might not have access to the drive for a few more
> weeks. When I have, I'll try it out. Could this be a SCSI
> implementation problem? I could try the USB1.1 as well for comparison,
> it will underrun the buffer, but not until after it's answered whether
> it'll write more than 0 bytes. Anything else to try? There'll prob be
> only one shot at the drive.

Well actually i'm also interested to see if the Sony DRU-500A (the atapi 
version) works as expected.

> 
> > # cdrecord-ossdvd -v dev=0,0,0 driveropts=burnfree -dao dvd_iso_image.raw
> 
> *That's* how to turn on burn-free... thanks!
> 

cheers,

Robert
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Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
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