[Dvdrtools-users] Having some trouble burning data with dvdrecord + Pioneer DVR-104

[Robb Monn]

Hello all --

I've looked in the archives for people reporting issues similar to mine and 
found two tips:

issue a hdparm  hdparm -d 0 -r 0 /dev/hdb (or whatever)

upgrade to 2.4.18+ kernel version.

Well, I am getting the same problems that these two previous to me reported and 
these tips don't seem to work for me.  I'm on kernal 2.5.18-3 already and the 
hdparm directive was accepted but I made another $4 coaster anyway.

Here is the error output:

BURN-Free is ON.
Performing OPC...
Sending CUE sheet...
dvdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01:   0 MB written.dvdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: 
no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 00 00 1F 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0E 00 00 00 00 21 02 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x02 (logical block address out of range) [No matching qua
lifier] Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
cmd finished after 0.006s timeout 200s

write track data: error after 63488 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Writing  time:    8.489s
Fixating...

Linux 2.4.18-3 (stock redhat 7.3 kernel)  on a Celeron 1.7Ghz, 512 MB Ram
with a Pioneer DVR-104 which shows up in the dmesg like this.

hdb: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=12161/255/63, UDMA(100)
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
hdb: DMA disabled


Any ideas?

Thanks,

Robb Monn
Systems Analyst, The New York Times