Problem recording Verbatim 8X with a PX-716A and K3b

Sparkster · Apprentice Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 205

I'm not sure if this post must be here. If not, please, move it.

My DVD recorder is a Plextor PX-716A and to record CDs or DVDs I use K3b. I recorded DVDs "princo" and verbatin without problems, but when I try to record Verbatim -R 8X, I receive the following output:

Sparkster · Apprentice Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 205

I solved the problem. It works if I specify incremental writing mode. There is no buffer info, but it works.

simon pants · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Posts: 47

I had the same OPC failure using a SONY OEM DVD Writer. I upgraded the firmware twice. Once to covert from OEM SONY DW-U10A to Non-OEM SONY DRU-500A, and then once more to set the latest firmware. I googled for the firmware to convert from OEM as this wasn't on the Sony site. Once I had a SONY DRU-500A I could then use the Sony firmware update (from their site) to set to the latest.

In the background whilst I was solving this problem I installed and configured IVMAN in accordance with the HowTo posted on Gentoo-Wiki.com. This in turn led to a conversion to udev system and a disabling of the fsdev automounted in the kernel. I also enabled the SCSI interface in the kernel (sorry not at home so can't be more specific).

Overall this solved the problem for me. This was on kernel 2.6.10 with latest (as of this post) k3b and all the supporting software.

For writing I used Auto which in turn preselected DAO mode - which worked very well.

Hope this helps,

SimonP

cventers · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 5

The error you are receiving (sense key 5h, additional sense code 2c) is a "command sequence error". I have the same writer and get the same error. After some research into the subject, my best guess is this:

1. Plextor tests different vendor media on their drives, then programs "better" writing strategies than the optimal power calibration would automatically determine directly into the firmware.
2. When growisofs asks the drive to do an OPC, and the drive recognizes the media and knows that it has a writing strategy hardcoded by plextor engineers in its firmware, it issues a "command sequence error". Some various threads of discussion I've found via google seem to indicate that this behavior isn't necessarily anticipated by someone implementing MMC3.

The bottom line is this... writing *should* work in DAO mode. If you cd to /usr/portage/app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools/ and unpack the ebuild, you should be able to edit growisofs_mmc.cpp. Go to the vicinity of line 1206. You'll see something like this: