From: Eberhard Heuser-Hofmann [vaxinf@chclu.chemie.uni-konstanz.de] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:05 AM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Freeware DVDrecord & Sony DRU-500AX fails to write DVD-R Hi, I've downloaded the DVDrecord Version, compiled it and test it. Here is a log. $ mc CDRECORD.EXE -dao -dummy dev=8,0,0 DKA100:[000000]LDNEU.DSK dvdrtools v0.1.4 Portions (c) 2002-2003 Ark Linux This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. Based on: Cdrecord 1.11a15 (Alpha-HP-OpenVMS) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling This is the OpenVMS Freeware V6.0 port of the DVDRTOOLS suite. Tnis is **not** an official nor a supported port of the DVDRTOOLS suite. This port involves various modifications to the source code as received from J=F6rg Schilling, Dr. Eberhard Heuser-Hofmann, and various other folks. Please do **not** contact Jörg Schilling concerning any errors that might be found within this port, and please do **not** expect the authors of this port within HP OpenVMS Engineering to provide any support for this OpenVMS Freeware port. (If you want or need support, commercial recording packages are available. Please use one.) Thanks CDRECORD: Fifo not supported. scsidev: '8,0,0' scsibus: 8 target: 0 lun: 0 Using libscg version 'hp OpenVMS Engineering-0.6h1' CDRECORD: Warning: using unofficial version of libscg hp OpenVMS Engineering-0.6h1 (#)scsitransp.c 1.82 02/03/08 Copyright 1988,1995,2000 J. Schilling. CDRECORD: Warning: using unofficial libscg transport code version hp OpenVMS Engineering-scsi-vms.c-1.29h2 =40(#)scsi-vms.c 1.29h2 01/03/18 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling. Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format : 2 Capabilities :=20 Vendor_info : 'SONY ' Identification : 'DVD RW DRU-500A ' Revision : '2.0g' Device seems to be : Generic MMC2 DVD-RW. resid: 244 resid: 244 Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R/RW driver (mmc_mdvd). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE=20 Supported modes: PACKET SAO Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in dummy mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write now. Operation started at Thu Dec 4 09:31:27 2003. trackno=0 CDRECORD: error 0. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 22 A6 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)=20 resid: 63488 cmd finished after 0.007s timeout 200s write track data: error after 0 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 $ And now? Where is a programmer, who is responsible for this code? The GPL claims that the must be a responsible person, otherwise the distribution is illegal. I'm going to offer a version of DVDwrite at not cost, but only in binary form and with reduced functionality (only single recording speed, only DVD minus R(W) recording). Advantage of this solution: Support if there are problems. DVDwrite is a program that has been tested with many DVD burners (Pioneer, Sony, Toshiba, LG). The command set for the DVD minus R(W) is defined more precisely than for DVD plus R(W) so the numbers of working configurations are higher. I would like to get a feedback if this solution is acceptable for the VMS community or what could be done in this case. Eberhard