On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 02:06:01PM -0600, Anthony D. Little wrote: > I've been making some data DVD coasters and now I'm looking > for help on successfully burning data DVDs. Make sure DMA is on for you harddrive and preferably the CDROM as well. hdparm /dev/hdx If not, turn on by hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx then try the burn. I've had good results with an inexpensive DVD burner I picked up at OfficeMax a month back(Micro Advantage Model 4DVDRW-B13). Burned a few +RW, 5 -R and about 8 +R so far. The +RW,+R I used growisofs, very nice as you don't have to make an image, just point it at a directory and it burns the disk. The -R I used dvdrecord to burn after mkisofs to make an image. You could also try a slower write speed, or this burnfree option. Heres a log from a -R disk: scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 dvdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (bero-0.5a '@(#)scsitrans dvdrtools v0.1.4 ... Based on: Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jrg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version 'bero-0.5a' Driveropts: 'burnfree' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'DVDRW ' Identifikation : 'IDE1004 ' Revision : '0038' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO Drive buf size : 1376256 = 1344 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 3931 MB Total size: 4514 MB (447:16.20) = 2012715 sectors Lout start: 4514 MB (447:18/15) = 2012715 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: 285781 Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... dvdrecord: Turning BURN-Free input buffer ready. trackno=0 BURN-Free is ON. Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... dvdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 @01T003931 @01:000001 @01:000002 ... Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 4122040320/4122040320 (2012715 sectors). Writing time: 757.212s Fixating... Fixating time: 20.211s dvdrecord: fifo had 64927 puts and 64927 gets. dvdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 24775 times full, min fill was 59%. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list