[Dvdrtools-users] Pioneer A04 on RH73

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Hello,

I have a Pioneer A04 on a RH73 machine.  I am using the Pioneer Media. 
However, it seems to have a problem with the media when I use dvdrecord.

# dvdrecord -v -eject -dummy -dao dev=0,0,0 speed=32 image.iso 
dvdrtools v0.1.3
Portions (c) 2002 Red Hat, Inc.
Based on:
Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg
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    : 'PIONEER '
Identifikation : 'DVD-RW  DVR-104 '
Revision       : '1.20'
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 : 1638400 = 1600 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data  3958 MB        
Total size:     4545 MB (450:19.94) = 2026496 sectors
Lout start:     4545 MB (450:21/71) = 2026496 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: 272000
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...
dvdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 3958 of 3958 MB written (fifo 100%).
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 4150263808/4150263808 (2026496
sectors).
Writing  time: 2176.914s
Fixating...
WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode.
Fixating time:    1.590s
dvdrecord: fifo had 65371 puts and 65371 gets.
dvdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 53260 times full, min fill was
95%.



When I uase cdrecord-dvdpro under exactly the same conditions all works
well:

address@hidden bin]# cdrecord-pro -v -eject -dummy dev=0,0,0 speed=32
/home/downloads/Linux/RH73/RH73-dvd.iso 
Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 1.11a21 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)
1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
Unlocked features: 
Limited  features: 
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.6'
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : 
Vendor_info    : 'PIONEER '
Identifikation : 'DVD-RW  DVR-104 '
Revision       : '1.20'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD.
cdrecord-pro: This version of cdrecord limits DVD-R/DVD-RW support to
-dummy or 1 GB real.
cdrecord-pro: 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   : SWABAUDIO 
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data  3958 MB        
Total size:     4545 MB (450:19.97) = 2026498 sectors
Lout start:     4545 MB (450:21/73) = 2026498 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
Total power on  hours: 14
Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks remaining: 271998
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.
BURN-Free is ON.
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 3958 of 3958 MB written (fifo 100%) 15.8x.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 4150263808/4150263808 (2026496
sectors).
Writing  time: 2096.382s
Fixating...
Fixating time:    1.353s
cdrecord-pro: fifo had 65371 puts and 65371 gets.
cdrecord-pro: fifo was 1 times empty and 51412 times full, min fill was
0%.

Can someone offer advice?

Thanks,

Bill Tihen
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TASIS IT (Tech Department)
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