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#1 2010-07-17 14:03:29

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[CLOSED] Burning tools can't see blank DVD discs

Hello.
Something strange is happening lately. Burning apps can't see blank discs. It doesn't matter if I have cdrkit or cdrtools installed - neither works.
Graveman hangs on start when blank DVD is in tray.
Brasero doesn't see my device and allow only to create ISO images.

cdrecord -minfo fails, with empty DVD-R present in tray:

sudo cdrecord -minfo
Password: 
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.00 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
No target specified, trying to find one...
Using dev=0,0,0.
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : 
Vendor_info    : 'MATSHITA'
Identifikation : 'DVD-RAM UJ-860S '
Revision       : '1.00'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO
cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer.
cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped.
cdrecord: Cannot load media.

I'm in optical group and . Thunar successfully mounts DVD with written content and cdrecord -minfo also gives me information about present media when it's not empty.

Is there anything I can do?

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#2 2010-07-17 16:54:40

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Re: [CLOSED] Burning tools can't see blank DVD discs

Similar thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101201

Do you have hal running?

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#3 2010-07-17 17:09:40

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Re: [CLOSED] Burning tools can't see blank DVD discs

karol wrote:

Similar thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101201

Do you have hal running?

Yes, I do have hal running. Is there something wrong with it?
EDIT: I know it's deprecated, but thunar-volman won't work without it.

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#4 2010-07-17 17:16:05

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Re: [CLOSED] Burning tools can't see blank DVD discs

> EDIT: I know it's deprecated, but thunar-volman won't work without it.
That's why I've asked.

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#5 2010-07-18 13:09:21

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Re: [CLOSED] Burning tools can't see blank DVD discs

Disabling hal doesn't solve this problem - blank DVD disks are still invisible/unreadable by cdrecord.

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#6 2010-07-18 13:13:51

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Re: [CLOSED] Burning tools can't see blank DVD discs

You did not install DVD-driver, I think.

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#7 2010-07-18 14:05:34

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Re: [CLOSED] Burning tools can't see blank DVD discs

@mianka

weakhead wrote:

[...] Thunar successfully mounts DVD [...]

It's supposed to be in kernel, right? Besides, it was never necessary for me to install external driver, months ago burning DVD discs with tools using cdrkit/cdrtools/dvd+rw-tools wasn't a problem.
I even though that lack of libdvdread package was causing this... but having it installed doesn't help either (as expected - it's just for DVD-Video discs).

EDIT: I've also tried dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr0 - doesn't work.
cdrecord have no problems recognizing empty CD-R medium, so it's happening with DVD discs only.

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#8 2010-07-20 17:34:23

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Re: [CLOSED] Burning tools can't see blank DVD discs

Try launching with

dbus-launch brasero

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#9 2010-07-21 18:46:12

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Re: [CLOSED] Burning tools can't see blank DVD discs

Doesn't work. Terminal doesn't give any output, dvd+rw-mediainfo and cdrecord -minfo still can't recognize blank medium.

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#10 2010-07-21 19:05:08

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Re: [CLOSED] Burning tools can't see blank DVD discs

make sure that the device in the burning tool is the same as the output of 'wodim --devices' !

each app told me that the device is /dev/hda instead of /dev/scd0 !

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#11 2010-07-21 19:33:28

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Re: [CLOSED] Burning tools can't see blank DVD discs

That's not the case, I'm using cdrecord and growisofs directly, I point to the proper device each time I'm doing something (in my case: /dev/sr0, /dev/dvd, /dev/cd - it's all the same).

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#12 2010-07-22 15:08:18

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Re: [CLOSED] Burning tools can't see blank DVD discs

I've tried to burn dvd disc with Ubuntu 10.04 and 8.04, with no success. Tried different mediums.
It may be possible that my drive is broken. Strange, it still mounts burned DVD and fully support CD's.
I will be sure if that's the case when I try to burn something in Windows XP.

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#13 2010-07-22 15:15:01

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Re: [CLOSED] Burning tools can't see blank DVD discs

Are you sure it's a DVD-burner (DVD-R/W)? It may be a 'combo' drive - CD-RW + DVD _reader_

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#14 2010-07-23 14:19:57

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Re: [CLOSED] Burning tools can't see blank DVD discs

Here's the info of my burner:
b3oi6v_th.jpg

But nevermind that. My drive is broken and can't make an use of blank DVD-R, even in Windows.
Solved tag doesn't make sense here, so I will mark this topic as [CLOSED].

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