[gentoo-user] growisofs: "media is not recognized as recordable DVD"

[Daniel]

I had some .avi's that I wanted to burn, so I went out and bought a 10pack of 
Fujifilm DVD-R media (4.7GB) and fired up K3b.  However, it kept asking me to 
insert a writable disk even though I put fresh disk after fresh disk in the 
drive.

So I resorted to growisofs.  I had an ISO I wanted to burn as well so:

  $ growisofs -Z /dev/dvdrw=/path/to/image.iso
  :-( /dev/dvdrw: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: 0

...so I started Googling and found numerous references to people making stupid 
mistakes (trying to burn CDs instead, putting +R discs in  -R drives etc.) 
and a few people suggesting I flash my firmware.

The thing is, this USED to work -- both with -R and +R and +RW... I just 
haven't done it for a few months.  I burned a CDR just the other day, but 
this is the first time in a while that I've tried to burn a DVD.  The drive 
is a good one:

  $ dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvdrw
  INQUIRY:                [PIONEER ][DVD-RW  DVR-108 ][1.10]
  GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
  :-( no media mounted, exiting...

And the binaries look ok:

  $ ls -l `which cdrecord` `which growisofs` `which mkisofs`
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 321432 2007-12-16 19:08 /usr/bin/cdrecord
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  83620 2007-12-16 18:35 /usr/bin/growisofs
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 432384 2007-12-16 19:08 /usr/bin/mkisofs

As do my permissions:

  $ ls -l /dev/hda /dev/dvd /dev/dvdrw
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     3 2007-12-16 18:49 /dev/dvd -> hda
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     3 2007-12-16 18:49 /dev/dvdrw -> hda
  brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 3, 0 2007-12-16 18:49 /dev/hda

...though admittedly, I'm not sure what that "b" is on /dev/hda...

Lastly, my software is up to date:

  $ eix cdrtools
  [I] app-cdr/cdrtools app-cdr/dvd\\+rw-tools
       Available versions:  2.01-r1 2.01.01_alpha25 2.01.01_alpha34
       ~2.01.01_alpha36 {unicode}
       Installed versions:  2.01.01_alpha34(19:08:15 16/12/07)
       Homepage:            http://cdrecord.berlios.de/
       Description:         A set of tools for CD/DVD reading and recording, 
       including cdrecord

  [I] app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools
       Available versions:  5.21.4.10.8 ~6.0 ~6.1 6.1-r1 7.0
       Installed versions:  7.0(18:35:30 16/12/07)
       Homepage:            http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
       Description:         A set of tools for DVD+RW/-RW drives

My user is in the cdrom group and the above happens whether I'm root or my 
user.  I gotta get this stuff burned ASAP and I'm even downloading Nero for 
Windows (shudder) just to get it done, but I really want this to work again.  
Suggestions?  Help??


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