On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:04:45 +1000
Perhaps you can try a cli utility called wodim. which is CLI based CD/DVD burning program. Cheers Glenn
example # wodim --devices
wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) :
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0 dev='/dev/hda' rwrw-- : 'ATAPI' 'DVD A DH20A4P'
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# wodim -v -dao dev=/dev/hda driveropts=burnfree whatever.iso TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '/dev/hda'
devname: '/dev/hda'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Wodim version: 1.1.8
Driveropts: 'burnfree' SCSI buffer size: 64512 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'ATAPI ' Identification : 'DVD A DH20A4P ' Revision : '9P59' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Current: 0x001B (DVD+R) Profile: 0x002B (DVD+R/DL) Profile: 0x001B (DVD+R) (current) Profile: 0x001A (DVD+RW) Profile: 0x0016 (DVD-R/DL layer jump recording) Profile: 0x0015 (DVD-R/DL sequential recording) Profile: 0x0014 (DVD-RW sequential recording) Profile: 0x0013 (DVD-RW restricted overwrite) Profile: 0x0012 (DVD-RAM) Profile: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording) Profile: 0x0010 (DVD-ROM) Profile: 0x000A (CD-RW) Profile: 0x0009 (CD-R) Profile: 0x0008 (CD-ROM) Profile: 0x0002 (Removable disk) Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO Drive buf size : 1068032 = 1043 KB Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device communication breaks or freezes immediately after that. FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 3952 MB Total size: 4538 MB (449:39.69) = 2023477 sectors Lout start: 4539 MB (449:41/52) = 2023477 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 HINT: use dvd+rw-mediainfo from dvd+rw-tools for information extraction. Blocks total: 2295104 Blocks current: 2295104 Blocks remaining: 271627 Speed set to 11080 KB/s Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8.0 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 3952 of 3952 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 6.3x. Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 4144080896/4144080896 (2023477 sectors). Writing time: 552.440s Average write speed 5.9x. Min drive buffer fill was 11% Fixating... Fixating time: 25.127s wodim: fifo had 65274 puts and 65274 gets. wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 23516 times full, min fill was 56%.
Thank you. The results of using the cli utility wodim are below Looking at the results it appears that my DVD drive is now set to /dev/scd0 Before I upgraded from M7 to M8 it was set to /dev/sr0 EP45:~ # wodim --devices wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) : ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 dev='/dev/scd0' rwrw-- : 'ASUS' 'DRW-2014S1T' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org