[Dvdrtools-users] problem with Sony DVD RW DRU-500A

[Philip Washington]

I have been trying to get this dvd player to burn a DVD-R disk but I 
keep getting these errors?

 dvdrecord -v -eject -dao -dummy dev=0,0,0 testing.iso
dvdrtools v0.1.3
Portions (c) 2002 Red Hat, Inc.
Based on:
Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J?rg 
Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'SONY    '
Identifikation : 'DVD RW DRU-500A '
Revision       : '2.0c'
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 : 4718592 = 4608 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data  1771 MB
Total size:     2034 MB (201:31.94) = 906896 sectors
Lout start:     2034 MB (201:33/71) = 906896 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: 1391600
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in dummy mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
trackno=0
BURN-Free is ON.
Sending CUE sheet...
Starting new track at sector: 907062
Track 01:   0 of 1771 MB written.dvdrecord: Input/output error. 
write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 0D D7 36 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.011s timeout 200s

write track data: error after 0 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Writing  time:    5.031s
Fixating...
WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode.
Fixating time:    0.001s
dvdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets.
dvdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.


I am getting the same error when I don't use dummy mode and when I use 
the -nofix option.