My Centos 6 wodim tell me that it can only format DVD+RW. I have DVD-RWs. Even when I format a DVD-RW on my standalone DVD recorder, wodim still will not write to it. Is there a centos-6-useable mechanism for formatting and writing DVD-RWs?
On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 9:10:34 AM CDT Michael Hennebry wrote:
My Centos 6 wodim tell me that it can only format DVD+RW. I have DVD-RWs. Even when I format a DVD-RW on my standalone DVD recorder, wodim still will not write to it. Is there a centos-6-useable mechanism for formatting and writing DVD-RWs?
According to the man page for wodim - formatting is not supported for DVD-RW. You might take a look at growisofs and dvd+rw-format. The latter command, in spite of the name, can deal with DVD-RW media.
It is possible that the optical drive in your computer does not support DVD-RW media. The only way I know of to find what media are supported is to use K3B. If you go to Settings - Devices, you should get a list of readable and writable media for each device.
Bill Gee
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Bill Gee wrote:
On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 9:10:34 AM CDT Michael Hennebry wrote:
My Centos 6 wodim tell me that it can only format DVD+RW. I have DVD-RWs. Even when I format a DVD-RW on my standalone DVD recorder, wodim still will not write to it. Is there a centos-6-useable mechanism for formatting and writing DVD-RWs?
According to the man page for wodim - formatting is not supported for DVD-RW. You might take a look at growisofs and dvd+rw-format. The latter command, in spite of the name, can deal with DVD-RW media.
It is possible that the optical drive in your computer does not support DVD-RW media. The only way I know of to find what media are supported is to use K3B. If you go to Settings - Devices, you should get a list of readable and writable media for each device.
Bill Gee
potentially stupid question here: Why would one format a cd/dvd? I've never had to do that, I just write to 'em.
for what purpose or need would one format one?
thanks!
On 25/04/2018 16:07, Fred Smith wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Bill Gee wrote:
On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 9:10:34 AM CDT Michael Hennebry wrote:
My Centos 6 wodim tell me that it can only format DVD+RW. I have DVD-RWs. Even when I format a DVD-RW on my standalone DVD recorder, wodim still will not write to it. Is there a centos-6-useable mechanism for formatting and writing DVD-RWs?
According to the man page for wodim - formatting is not supported for DVD-RW. You might take a look at growisofs and dvd+rw-format. The latter command, in spite of the name, can deal with DVD-RW media.
It is possible that the optical drive in your computer does not support DVD-RW media. The only way I know of to find what media are supported is to use K3B. If you go to Settings - Devices, you should get a list of readable and writable media for each device.
Bill Gee
potentially stupid question here: Why would one format a cd/dvd? I've never had to do that, I just write to 'em.
for what purpose or need would one format one?
In order to delete something that you had previously written to it?
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:07:58AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Bill Gee wrote:
It is possible that the optical drive in your computer does not support DVD-RW media. The only way I know of to find what media are supported is to use K3B. If you go to Settings - Devices, you should get a list of readable and writable media for each device.
Bill Gee
potentially stupid question here: Why would one format a cd/dvd? I've never had to do that, I just write to 'em.
for what purpose or need would one format one?
If you have a rewriteable one. I am assuming (and we all know what that means :) ) that the OP has such a disk.
Otherwise, I can't think of another use case where one would format an unused drive, but there may be one.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:20:33AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:07:58AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Bill Gee wrote:
It is possible that the optical drive in your computer does not support DVD-RW media. The only way I know of to find what media are supported is to use K3B. If you go to Settings - Devices, you should get a list of readable and writable media for each device.
Bill Gee
potentially stupid question here: Why would one format a cd/dvd? I've never had to do that, I just write to 'em.
for what purpose or need would one format one?
If you have a rewriteable one. I am assuming (and we all know what that means :) ) that the OP has such a disk.
I write to RW media all the time without formatting it. I might "blank" it, but that isn't the same thing. After posting I realized that one might want to use a UDF filesystem on RW media, and I suppose for that purpose one would need to format it, though I've not done that on a CD or DVD, only on USB.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 12:44 PM Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:20:33AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:07:58AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Bill Gee wrote:
It is possible that the optical drive in your computer does not
support DVD-RW
media. The only way I know of to find what media are supported is
to use K3B.
If you go to Settings - Devices, you should get a list of readable
and
writable media for each device.
Bill Gee
potentially stupid question here: Why would one format a cd/dvd? I've never had to do that, I just write to 'em.
for what purpose or need would one format one?
If you have a rewriteable one. I am assuming (and we all know what that means :) ) that the OP has such a disk.
I write to RW media all the time without formatting it. I might "blank" it, but that isn't the same thing. After posting I realized that one might want to use a UDF filesystem on RW media, and I suppose for that purpose one would need to format it, though I've not done that on a CD or DVD, only on USB.
Yep. Formatting but no burning.
https://github.com/pali/udftools/blob/master/doc/HOWTO.udf
--- Chris Murphy
Michael Hennebry wrote:
My Centos 6 wodim tell me that it can only format DVD+RW. I have DVD-RWs. Even when I format a DVD-RW on my standalone DVD recorder, wodim still will not write to it. Is there a centos-6-useable mechanism for formatting and writing DVD-RWs?
Have you ever used k3b? It works very nicely.
Michael hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." --
Now that's a complete impossibility. I mean, where can you find a virgin who can (legally) give blood?
mark
[snip]
I have DVD-RWs.
[snip]
I am assuming (and we all know what that
means :) ) that the OP has such a disk. [snip]
It is not an assumption. OP has Re-Write (RW) disks.
(JIC: https://www.google.com/search?q=dvd-rw+definition&oq=dvd-rw&aqs=chro... )
-- Fred
On 04/25/2018 09:33 AM, fred roller wrote:
[snip]
I have DVD-RWs.
[snip]
I am assuming (and we all know what that
means :) ) that the OP has such a disk. [snip]
It is not an assumption. OP has Re-Write (RW) disks.
I suggest that you try xorriso. In recent years I've had much better results with xorriso for writing DVD's and Blue Rays then any of the older programs.
Nataraj
On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
My Centos 6 wodim tell me that it can only format DVD+RW. I have DVD-RWs. Even when I format a DVD-RW on my standalone DVD recorder, wodim still will not write to it. Is there a centos-6-useable mechanism for formatting and writing DVD-RWs?
Have you ever used k3b? It works very nicely.
I have now. It can format or whatever it needs to do to write my dvd-rws.
The last time I use it, it crapped out after writing, but before finalizing.
How do I get it to finalize?
Also, how do I get it to stop tooting at me? I thought that I had found the settings flag, but apparently not.
Michael hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." --
Now that's a complete impossibility. I mean, where can you find a virgin who can (legally) give blood?
There are legal ways to get the blood of some virgins who cannot legally give blood. That is an ickier subject for other fora.
Hi,
Michael Hennebry wrote:
The last time I use it [K3B], , it crapped out after writing, but before finalizing.
Sounds like a growisofs problem.
If it was with unformatted DVD-R or DVD-RW media, does it resemble this error ? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810483
Any message from the failed program run might help to diagnose the problem.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
On Sun, 29 Apr 2018, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
The last time I use it [K3B], , it crapped out after writing, but before finalizing.
Sounds like a growisofs problem.
If it was with unformatted DVD-R or DVD-RW media, does it resemble this error ? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810483
Any message from the failed program run might help to diagnose the problem.
No message, it just went to 100% CPU and quit responding.
In any case, my immediate task is to get it to finalize the disk.
DVD-R
Hi,
No message, it just went to 100% CPU and quit responding.
Did you start it in a terminal window by a shell command ? In this case my local K3B (2.0.2) floods it with debug messages.
DVD-R
So i need to get a DVD-RW into blank unformatted state. K3B offers me "Format and Erase" but not blanking. So: xorriso -outdev /dev/sr4 -blank all to make it similar to a blank DVD-R.
900 seconds later: New Data Project -> fiddle in some directory -> Burn "Writing Mode" offers me "Auto", "DAO", "Restricted Overwrite". But i want "Incremental". Grrr. So i try to enforce it with tab "Misc" and set "Multisession Mode" to "Start Multisession". (DAO cannot keep the medium appendable. So growisofs should choose "Incremental".) I let "Writing Mode" at "auto". Button "Burn". CPU (Xeon 4x2) varies between 1100 and 3500 MHz.
After 598 of 632 MiB have been reported as written, there is no progress message for a while although the drive seems to burn normally. This could be growisofs' habit to fill DVD-R[W] up to 1 GiB at least. But the CPU is quite idle. (100 % never happens. But 12.5 % would be one busy core.)
Then suddenly writing is done and verifying begins. Finally K3B says "Written data verified". The resulting DVD-RW is indeed appendable. So this run was Incremental and not DAO.
I import the written session and add another directory tree. In "Burn" -> "Misc" i chose "Finish Multisession" as "Multisession Mode". After burning, the medium has two sessions and is closed.
I could try "Writing mode" "Restriced Overwrite". But that is the formatted medium state which is not available for DVD-R media without "W" in their type name.
Could you try * whether Writing Mode "auto" and Multisession Mode ""Start Multisession" yield success in a first session, * whether the DVD-R is then readable on all intended drives, * whether the DVD-R then takes a second session with "Finish Multisession" * and whether the DVD-R is then readable and shows the files from both sessions.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
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