Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:10:42
Message-Id: 4bb47000.XnMknl967XlNW9XA%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn. by Mike Edenfield
1 Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org> wrote:
2
3 > On 3/30/2010 1:00 PM, Dale wrote:
4 >
5 > > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
6 > > Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 73 03 00 00
7 > > Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
8 > > Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0
9 > > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
10 >
11 > This part is claiming that your burner was unable to figure out what the
12 > correct power level is for writing to the media. This is entirely
13 > controlled in hardware, so there is no legitimate reason why your
14 > version of cdrecord should have any effect. It is almost always caused by:
15 >
16 > * Bad media
17 > * Bad hardware
18 > * Insufficient power supply
19
20 With DVD+RW, there is another possible problem: The media was written by
21 another drive before that results in a medium state incompatible with the
22 current drive. This is not uncommon with a company-only "standard" like DVD+.
23
24 Jörg
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