[Dvdrtools-users] Cannot sucessfully write to Pioneer DVR-A03

[Bill Thorson]

I have been facing this problem for a few months now.  First with 
cdrecord-ProDVD and
now I've just tried dvdrtools.  I am just trying to write data DVDs for 
backup purposes.
Here's my system details:

  machine: Dual AMD Athlon 1600+
  ram:        2-gig ECC RAM
  mobo:     Tyan Tiger S2460
  disk:       hda: 20gig
                 hdb: 80gig
                 hdc:  'PIONEER ' 'DVD-RW  DVR-103 ' '1.65' Removable 
CD-ROM
                 hdd: 80gig

I've created the iso in a variety of ways and used a variety of 
parameters on the
dvdrecord command and still get this type of error.  The latest, for 
which results
are shown below were done this way:

       mkisofs -R -J  -o /m1/dvd/test.iso .
       dvdrecord -v -dao dev=0,0,0 test.iso

The error shown below is writing to a generic DVD-RW but results seem to
be the same writting generic or name-brande DVD-R disks.   I just didn't 
want to
waste too many more DVD-Rs trying to get this to work. The ammount written
and the location of the error changes randomly. 

Any ideas?

Bill Thorson
address@hidden

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address@hidden dvd]# dvdrecord -v -dao dev=0,0,0 test.iso
dvdrtools - based on:
Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg 
Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.19
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'PIONEER '
Identifikation : 'DVD-RW  DVR-103 '
Revision       : '1.65'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 1245184 = 1216 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data  3610 MB       
Total size:     4146 MB (410:48.96) = 1848672 sectors
Lout start:     4146 MB (410:50/72) = 1848672 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
 ATIP start of lead in:  -150 (00:00/00)
Disk type:    unknown
Manuf. index: -1
Manufacturer: unknown (not in table)
Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks remaining: 449824
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
trackno=0
Performing OPC...
Sending CUE sheet...
dvdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 2412 of 3610 MB written (fifo 100%).dvdrecord: Input/output 
error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 12 D8 03 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 12 D8 10 0E 00 00 00 00 21 02 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x02 (logical block address out of range) [No 
matching qualifier] Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 1234960 (valid)
cmd finished after 0.148s timeout 200s

write track data: error after 2529171456 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Writing  time: 1850.490s
Fixating...
Fixating time:    0.302s
dvdrecord: fifo had 39901 puts and 39838 gets.
dvdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 17549 times full, min fill was 92%.
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