Subject: Re: errors with DVD-burner.
To: evilknievel <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Brad du Plessis <bradd@cat.co.za>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/03/2004 10:40:39
> Do you or anyone else happen to know i DVD-burner that works as it
> should under NetBSD ?


I've had no trouble with a Plextor PX-504A DVD+R/RW using Verbatim DVD+RW's
with growisofs.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "evilknievel" <evilthings@gmail.com>
To: <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 1:40 AM
Subject: Re: errors with DVD-burner.


> Lower the speed, sounds like good idea. Even tho burning at speed=1 or
> speed=2 is a real pain.
>
> Do you or anyone else happen to know i DVD-burner that works as it
> should under NetBSD ?
> Im willing to put out the money for a new burner and get rid of this,
> this one has given me alot of problems.
> I tried with dvdrecord also, no luck there either. Just keeps on
> coasting these DVD's, i guess i now have spent more money on coasting
> DVD's than the actual DVD-burner costed.
>
>
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:48:06 -0600 (CST), Frederick Bruckman
> <fredb@immanent.net> wrote:
> > In article <62cebe8a04110214022e7186c6@mail.gmail.com>,
> >
> >
> >         evilthings@gmail.com (evilknievel) writes:
> > > Hello everyone, im getting really sick of my dvd-burner...it coasts
> > > like 50% of my DVDs, its a Pioneer 106.
> > >
> > > Here is my DVD from the dmesg.
> > >
> > > /netbsd: cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-106D,
> > > CIDL005248WL, 1.05> cdrom removable
> > > /netbsd: cd0: 32-bit data port
> > > /netbsd: cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2
(Ultra/33)
> > > /netbsd: cd0(piixide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
> > > (Ultra/33) (using DMA data transfers)
> > >
> > > The drive is in the right mode UDMA2, ive checked that with the
> > > manual, and nothing else seems wrong.
> > >
> > > But this is the error message i get everytime im trying to burn
> > > something, usually the error message comes in the end when its
> > > finalizing the DVD.
> > >
> > > cd0(piixide0:1:0):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x43 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0c 40
> > >     SENSE KEY:  Illegal Request
> > >      ASC/ASCQ:  Illegal Field in CDB
> >
> > For what it's worth, all the DVD and CD burners I've tried on NetBSD
> > give such messages, but they work fine. It's meaningless noise.
> >
> > > And im sure its not the media, because ive tried many different, many
> > > high-quality and some low-quality too. +-RW works just perfectly, its
> > > just when burning -+ i get these errors...sometimes the dvds work and
> > > sometimes they dont.
> >
> > Realize that Pioneer is in the -RW/-R camp (a.k.a. DVD consortium), and
> > so can't politically claim support for +RW/+R, although apparently they
> > do anyway.
> >
> > > oh, almost forgot...im using dvd+rw-tools (growisofs) to burn. (Maybe
> > > someone have other burning-software to recommend to me?)
> > >
> > > Anyone who could help me out with this? Would be really appriciated...
> >
> > The usual solution to unreliable writes is to lower the speed.
> > growisofs(1) seems to suggest using "-speed=1" if you have problems.
> >
> >
> > Frederick
> >
>