[Bug 14692] Re: hal detects written DVD as empty

[Vladimir Lushnikov]

Hello!

I apologise - I don't use SuSe, Ubuntu etc., but rather Gentoo - however
I am experiencing a similar problem.

I have an Amilo M3438G laptop running 2.6.20-gentoo (that's ICH6 for the
IDE controller) and my DVD drive is /dev/hda.

Here's the output of python cdcaps.py /dev/hda:

CDO_USE_FFLAGS returned 13
got drive capabilities: 21fbef
CDC_DVD_R support
CDC_DVD support
CDC_CD_RW support
CDC_CD_R support
got disc status: 0


I burn video-dvds with NeroLinux usually (NeroLinux 2.1.0.3). The dvds work fine in Windows and on standalone dvd players - just not in linux. Here's an example:

sphynx ~ # dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/hda
INQUIRY:                [_NEC    ][DVD+-RW ND-6650A][1.42]
GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
 Mounted Media:         1Bh, DVD+R
 Media ID:              SONY/D21
GET [CURRENT] PERFORMANCE:
.....................
READ DISC INFORMATION:
 Disc status:           appendable
 Number of Sessions:    1
 State of Last Session: incomplete
 "Next" Track:          1
 Number of Tracks:      1
READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]:
 Track State:           invisible
 Track Start Address:   0*2KB
 Next Writable Address: 2291232*2KB
 Free Blocks:           3872*2KB
 Track Size:            2295104*2KB
READ CAPACITY:          0*2048=0

An invisible track? UDF support is in the kernel.

The kernel compains in dmesg "cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I
recognize!" and when I try to mount the disc as UDF it says:

hda: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
ATAPI device hda:
  Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
  Invalid field in command packet -- (asc=0x24, ascq=0x00)
  The failed "<NULL>" packet command was:
  "ad 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
  Error in command packet byte 7 bit 0
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!

This is not a hardware problem - the disc plays fine in WinXP. Also, if
I open the disc in Nero I can browse the directories on it!

I don't know what the problem seems to be - I have got conflicting
advice from my google searches, but the point is, the error is similar
across a lot of different possible causes.

Regards,
Vladimir

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hal detects written DVD as empty
https://launchpad.net/bugs/14692