I'm trying to use DVD-RW ("minus RW") disks in my LG GSA-4040B drive. I can write a new disk just fine, but can't find any way to blank or re-use a disk. When I run xcdroast and click on the "Blank CD/DVD+-RW" button, I get "Error while blanking." Here is last part of the dialog:
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd) Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO Drive buf size : 1245184 = 1216 KB Drive DMA Speed: 11772 kB/s 66x CD 8x DVD cdrecord.prodvd: Success. set streaming: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: B6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1C 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 10 B6 00 00 0D 21 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segmant 0 Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x00 (logical block address out of range) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid) cmd finished after 0.004 s timeout 40s Current Secsize: 2048 cdrecord.prodvd: Cannot set speed/dummy. ATIP start of lead in: -150 (00:00/00)
I've had similar lack of success trying to blank or overwrite using cdrecord or growisofs. The disks I'm using are Sony 2X DVD-RW 4.7GB, which _should_ be compatible with the drive AFAICT. The drive is happy to write to a new disk.
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I'm trying to use DVD-RW ("minus RW") disks in my LG GSA-4040B drive. I can write a new disk just fine, but can't find any way to blank or re-use a disk. When I run xcdroast and click on the "Blank CD/DVD+-RW" button, I get "Error while blanking." Here is last part of the dialog:
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd) Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO Drive buf size : 1245184 = 1216 KB Drive DMA Speed: 11772 kB/s 66x CD 8x DVD cdrecord.prodvd: Success. set streaming: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: B6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1C 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 10 B6 00 00 0D 21 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segmant 0 Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x00 (logical block address out of range) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid) cmd finished after 0.004 s timeout 40s Current Secsize: 2048 cdrecord.prodvd: Cannot set speed/dummy. ATIP start of lead in: -150 (00:00/00)
I've had similar lack of success trying to blank or overwrite using cdrecord or growisofs. The disks I'm using are Sony 2X DVD-RW 4.7GB, which _should_ be compatible with the drive AFAICT. The drive is happy to write to a new disk.
One possibility is:
$ cdrecord blank=help Blanking options: all blank the entire disk disc blank the entire disk disk blank the entire disk fast minimally blank the entire disk (PMA, TOC, pregap) minimal minimally blank the entire disk (PMA, TOC, pregap) track blank a track unreserve unreserve a track trtail blank a track tail unclose unclose last session session blank last session
According to man cdrecord:
-format Format a CD-RW/DVD-RW/DVD+RW disc. Formatting is currently only implemented for DVD+RW media. A maiden DVD+RW media needs to be formatted before you may write to it. However, as cdrecord autodetects the need for formatting in this case and auto formats the medium before it starts writing, the -format option is only needed if you like to forcibly reformat a DVD+RW medium.
Hope this helps.
Barry
Barry Brimer wrote:
I'm trying to use DVD-RW ("minus RW") disks in my LG GSA-4040B drive. I can write a new disk just fine, but can't find any way to blank or re-use a disk. When I run xcdroast and click on the "Blank CD/DVD+-RW" button, I get "Error while blanking." Here is last part of the dialog:
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd) Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO Drive buf size : 1245184 = 1216 KB Drive DMA Speed: 11772 kB/s 66x CD 8x DVD cdrecord.prodvd: Success. set streaming: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: B6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1C 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 10 B6 00 00 0D 21 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segmant 0 Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x00 (logical block address out of range) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid) cmd finished after 0.004 s timeout 40s Current Secsize: 2048 cdrecord.prodvd: Cannot set speed/dummy. ATIP start of lead in: -150 (00:00/00)
I've had similar lack of success trying to blank or overwrite using cdrecord or growisofs. The disks I'm using are Sony 2X DVD-RW 4.7GB, which _should_ be compatible with the drive AFAICT. The drive is happy to write to a new disk.
One possibility is:
$ cdrecord blank=help Blanking options: all blank the entire disk disc blank the entire disk disk blank the entire disk fast minimally blank the entire disk (PMA, TOC, pregap) minimal minimally blank the entire disk (PMA, TOC, pregap) track blank a track unreserve unreserve a track trtail blank a track tail unclose unclose last session session blank last session
According to man cdrecord:
-format Format a CD-RW/DVD-RW/DVD+RW disc. Formatting is currently only implemented for DVD+RW media. A maiden DVD+RW media needs to be formatted before you may write to it. However, as cdrecord autodetects the need for formatting in this case and auto formats the medium before it starts writing, the -format option is only needed if you like to forcibly reformat a DVD+RW medium.
Thanks. I'd seen that. I did eventually find the magic incantation:
cdrecord dev=/dev/dvd -v -force blank=fast
The "-force" is the key to getting past whatever it is that my drive was complaining about. I'm pretty sure I had tried that before and had it not work, but perhaps the drive had been left in some strange state by whatever my previous attempt had been.
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