Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Problem burning to LG DVDRAM GSA-4167B

[Samson Lee]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > The drive is on secondary master. The hard drive with the
> > .iso is on secondary slave. All devices are running udma2.
>
> Bam!  That's your problem.  You will run into a noticable
> performance issue when you are doing DMA from one device to
> another on the same channel.  Especially from the
> all-important latency aspect.

Okay, I moved the .iso file onto my other hard drive on hda (udma5). 
Tried burning it and same problem :(

> > 1. The software reports Drive buf size : 1114112 = 1088 KB,
> > > but the drive actually has 2MB buffer
>
> Actually, mine says 1,8xx-something.

About the drive buffer size problem, if I enter the command without a 
disc in the drive, it says Drive buf size : 1966080 = 1920 KB !!!! The 
disc is 8x DVD+R ...

(without blank disc in drive)
# cdrecord-wrapper.sh -v -sao dev=/dev/dvd dvd.iso
Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01b31 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 
1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Unlocked features: ProDVD Clone
Limited  features:
This copy of cdrecord is licensed for: 
private/research/educational_non-commercial_use
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '/dev/dvd'
devname: '/dev/dvd'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'HL-DT-ST'
Identifikation : 'DVDRAM GSA-4167B'
Revision       : 'DL10'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: none
Profile: DVD-RAM
Profile: DVD-R sequential recording
Profile: Unknown
Profile: Unknown
Profile: DVD-RW sequential overwrite
Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite
Profile: DVD+RW
Profile: DVD+R
Profile: Unknown
Profile: DVD-ROM
Profile: CD-R
Profile: CD-RW
Profile: CD-ROM
Profile: Removable Disk
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1966080 = 1920 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data  3571 MB
Total size:     4102 MB (406:24.00) = 1828800 sectors
Lout start:     4102 MB (406:26/00) = 1828800 sectors
cdrecord-ProDVD: Success. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 BB 00 3A 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x3A Qual 0x00 (medium not present) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.003s timeout 200s
cdrecord-ProDVD: No disk / Wrong disk!

(with blank disc in drive)
# cdrecord-wrapper.sh -v -sao dev=/dev/dvd dvd.iso
Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01b31 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 
1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Unlocked features: ProDVD Clone
Limited  features:
This copy of cdrecord is licensed for: 
private/research/educational_non-commercial_use
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '/dev/dvd'
devname: '/dev/dvd'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'HL-DT-ST'
Identifikation : 'DVDRAM GSA-4167B'
Revision       : 'DL10'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: DVD+R
Profile: DVD-RAM
Profile: DVD-R sequential recording
Profile: Unknown
Profile: Unknown
Profile: DVD-RW sequential overwrite
Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite
Profile: DVD+RW
Profile: DVD+R (current)
Profile: Unknown
Profile: DVD-ROM
Profile: CD-R
Profile: CD-RW
Profile: CD-ROM
Profile: Removable Disk
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+R driver (mmc_dvdplusr).
Driver flags   : DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 1114112 = 1088 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data  3571 MB
Total size:     3571 MB = 1828800 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
Blocks total: 2295104 Blocks current: 2295104 Blocks remaining: 466304
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8 in real SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write    8 seconds.


> > # hdparm -i /dev/hdc
> > /dev/hdc:
> >  Model=HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4167B, FwRev=DL10,
> >    ...  
> >  UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2
> >  AdvancedPM=no
> >  Drive conforms to: device does not report version:
> >  * signifies the current active mode
>
> And "hdparm -i /dev/hdd"?

# hdparm -i /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

 Model=ST3200822A, FwRev=3.01, SerialNo=5LJ0XEA0
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2:  ATA/ATAPI-1 
ATA/ATAPI-2 ATA/ATAPI-3 ATA/ATAPI-4 ATA/ATAPI-5 ATA/ATAPI-6

 * signifies the current active mode


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