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Gentree
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 Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:03 am Post subject: DVD firmware version? |
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Hi,
I am having problems writing to a Mitsubitchy DVD-RW disc and want to check my firmware version on my Pioneer drive.
The manufacture provides a small windows utility but no info on how to get this info on linux.
Is there a native solution?
TIA , Gentree. 
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xenoscr
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:17 am Post subject: |
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Hello,
On my systems the firmware version is printed when I boot up. Do:
That should show you the make and version of your drive.
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Cintra
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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you could do 'dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/hdx' e.g.
| Code: | # dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/hdd
INQUIRY: [_NEC ][DVD_RW ND-3520AW][1.UF] <<<<<
GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
:-( non-DVD media mounted, exiting...
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Gentree
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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That's the baby!
| Code: | bash-3.00#dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd
INQUIRY: [PIONEER ][DVD-RW DVR-107D][1.10]
GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
Mounted Media: 14h, DVD-RW Sequential
Media ID: DAXON_RW2X01
Current Write Speed: 2.0x1385=2770KB/s
Write Speed #0: 2.0x1385=2770KB/s
Write Speed #1: 1.0x1385=1385KB/s
Speed Descriptor#0: 00/2298495 R@1.0x1385=1385KB/s W@2.0x1385=2770KB/s
Speed Descriptor#1: 00/2298495 R@1.0x1385=1385KB/s W@1.0x1385=1385KB/s
READ DVD STRUCTURE[#10h]:
Media Book Type: 32h, DVD-RW book [revision 2]
Legacy lead-out at: 2298496*2KB=4707319808
READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]:
Media Book Type: 32h, DVD-RW book [revision 2]
Last border-out at: 1207008*2KB=2471952384
READ DISC INFORMATION:
Disc status: complete
Number of Sessions: 1
State of Last Session: complete
Number of Tracks: 1
READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]:
Track State: complete incremental
Track Start Address: 0*2KB
Free Blocks: 0*2KB
Track Size: 1207008*2KB
Last Recorded Address: 1207007*2KB
FABRICATED TOC:
Track#1 : 14@0
Track#AA : 14@1207008
Multi-session Info: #1@0
READ CAPACITY: 1207008*2048=2471952384
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since you obviously know much more about this than I do (which 'aint hard  ) does the fact that I seems to have a closed session on that DVD mean it is now frozen?
I thought the whole point of RW media was you could blank them but I tried
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/zero
and it failed just as it fails any other write operation.
Thanks for your help.
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Cintra
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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I stick mostly to packet-writing and dvd+rw media, so I'm no dvd-rw expert, but these guys are http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/-RW/ - to quote:
"To format for Restricted Overwrite invoke 'dvd+rw-format /dev/scdN'. Once the media is formatted you don't have to reformat it to zap the content, it's more than enough to simply write over the existing data [with growisofs -Z ...]. Your unit might report some bogus media capacity (e.g. Pioneer DVR-x05 reports ~8GB or 178.5% of real capacity) right after initial format. It apparently just does so till you burn some data on it, so don't get fixated on this...
To change [back] to Sequential mode [or to reuse the media in Sequential mode for a new dataset] invoke 'dvd+rw-format -blank /dev/scdN'."
hope it helps
mvh
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Gentree
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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You're a goldmine, I'd have spent hours digging around to find that and probably would have skipped it thinking it did not apply to -rw because of the name .
that link looks like a very good place for me to start getting upto speed on using this DVD-RW drive I've had for about a year 
many thanks.
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