[Dvdrtools-users] Newbie - Burning DVD-Rs on Sony DRU-500A

[Alexander Crowell]

Hi.  I'm fairly new to the world of DVD burning.  I have
a Sony DRU-500A on a system running Red Hat 7.2.  Reading
the archives of this list, folks have indicated that
dvdrtools doesn't work with this drive?  I have tried the
newest release (0.4.1) and also cdrecord-ProDVD, but am
not having any luck in burning a DVD-R.  I have had some
success burning DVD+RW's and DVD+R's using dvd+rw-tools
so the drive seems to be functional and setup correctly.
In the future I may just stick with the +R/RW media, but I
do have a spindle of K-Hypermedia general use DVD-R's that
I would like to be able to use.

The outputs from dvdrecord and cdrecord-ProDVD are nearly
identical.  Here is what I see:

address@hidden ./cdrecord-ProDVD -v -dummy -dao -data dev=0,0,0 image.raw
Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.0.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002
Jrg Schilling
Unlocked features:
Limited  features:
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'SONY    '
Identifikation : 'DVD RW DRU-500A '
Revision       : '1.0e'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
./cdrecord-ProDVD: This version of cdrecord limits DVD-R/DVD-RW support to
-dummy or 1 GB real.
./cdrecord-ProDVD: If you need full DVD-R/DVD-RW support, ask the Author
for cdrecord-ProDVD.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-2 DVD-R/DVD-RW driver (mmc_dvd).
Driver flags   : DVD SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 8126464 = 7936 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data  1538 MB
Total size:     1538 MB = 787952 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
Blocks total: 787952 Blocks current: 787952 Blocks remaining: 0
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in dummy SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting dummy write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
BURN-Free is ON.
Turning BURN-Free off
./cdrecord-ProDVD: Input/output error. reserve_rzone: scsi sendcmd: no
error
CDB:  53 00 00 00 00 00 0C 05 F0 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 100s
Writing  time:    0.054s
Average write speed 999.0x.
Fixating...
Fixating time:    0.000s
./cdrecord-ProDVD: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets.
./cdrecord-ProDVD: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was
100%.


address@hidden dvdrecord -v -dao dev=0,0,0 image.raw
dvdrtools v0.1.4
Portions (c) 2002-2003 Ark Linux <address@hidden>
Based on:
Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jrg
Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20
Using libscg version 'bero-0.5a'
dvdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (bero-0.5a
'@(#)scsitransp.c     1.81 01/04/20 Copyright 1988,1995,2000 J.
Schilling').
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'SONY    '
Identifikation : 'DVD RW DRU-500A '
Revision       : '1.0e'
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  1538 MB
Total size:     1767 MB (175:06.02) = 787952 sectors
Lout start:     1767 MB (175:08/02) = 787952 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
  ATIP start of lead in:  -150 (00:00/00)
Disk type:    unknown dye (reserved id code)
Manuf. index: -1
Manufacturer: unknown (not in table)
Blocks total: 2297888 Blocks current: 1509920 Blocks remaining: 721968
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 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=1
BURN-Free is ON.
dvdrecord: Input/output error. reserve track: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  53 00 00 00 00 00 0C 05 F0 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.005s timeout 200s
dvdrecord: Cannot open new session.
dvdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets.
dvdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.


Any advice?  I'd appreciate any help folks may have.  Thanks.