GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 300020
Doesn't allow selection of writing speed
Last modified: 2005-04-25 22:52:48 UTC
Using my dvd writer, the option to select the write speed is greyed out. Cdrecord shows the drive as: Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'TSSTcorp' Identifikation : 'CD/DVDW TS-H552U' Revision : 'US03' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. ..... Number of supported write speeds: 4 Write speed # 0: 11080 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 62x, DVD 8x) Write speed # 1: 8310 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 47x, DVD 6x) Write speed # 2: 5540 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 31x, DVD 4x) Write speed # 3: 2770 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 15x, DVD 2x)
Can you run the "list_cddrives" command in the source distribution and post the output here? Also post the output of "dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/XXX" where XXX is the device name for the drive. Thanks.
$ dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/hdc INQUIRY: [TSSTcorp][CD/DVDW TS-H552U][US03] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: Mounted Media: 1Bh, DVD+R Current Write Speed: 8.0x1385=11080KB/s Write Speed #0: 8.0x1385=11080KB/s Write Speed #1: 6.0x1385=8310KB/s Write Speed #2: 4.0x1385=5540KB/s Write Speed #3: 2.0x1385=2770KB/s Speed Descriptor#0: 00/2295103 R@8.0x1385=11080KB/s W@8.0x1385=11080KB/s Speed Descriptor#1: 00/2295103 R@8.0x1385=11080KB/s W@6.0x1385=8310KB/s Speed Descriptor#2: 00/2295103 R@8.0x1385=11080KB/s W@4.0x1385=5540KB/s Speed Descriptor#3: 00/2295103 R@8.0x1385=11080KB/s W@2.4x1385=3324KB/s READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]: Media Book Type: A1h, DVD+R book [revision 1] Media ID: MCC/003 Legacy lead-out at: 2295104*2KB=4700372992 READ DISC INFORMATION: Disc status: blank Number of Sessions: 1 State of Last Session: empty Number of Tracks: 1 READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]: Track State: blank Track Start Address: 0*2KB Next Writable Address: 0*2KB Free Blocks: 2295104*2KB Track Size: 2295104*2KB ROM Compatibility LBA: 265696 READ CAPACITY: 1*2048=2048 $ ./list_cddrives name: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-H552U device: /dev/hdc max_speed_read: 48 type: CD Recorder/DVD-RW/DVD+R/DVD+RW/CD Drive/DVD Drive media type: DVD+R (rewritable) (blank) media size: 4482.62 MiB CD-Recorder/SCSI devices only: max_speed_write: 0 id: /dev/hdc name: CREATIVE DVD-ROM DVD6240E device: /dev/hdd max_speed_read: 24 type: CD Drive/DVD Drive media type: Couldn't open media media size: -0.00 MiB CD-Recorder/SCSI devices only: max_speed_write: 0 id: /dev/hdd
Ok, could you also attach the output of "lshal"?
Created attachment 45537 [details] Output of lshal
The output of lshal (attached) is without a blank dvd in the drive, let me know if you want the output with one in there.
So, HAL isn't getting the correct write speed either. storage.cdrom.write_speed = 0 (0x0) (int) Strange.
I've had various other problems with this drive, such as only writing DVD's at single speed, and so upgraded the firmware from US03 to US06, and this issue seems to have magically dissappeared, hal now reports: storage.cdrom.write_speed = 7056 (0x1b90) (int) and list_cddrives reports: CD-Recorder/SCSI devices only: max_speed_write: 40 id: /dev/hdc I'm quite happy now, so feel free to close this if you want, although it is interesting that cdrecord managed to find the info, but nautilus-cd-burner doesn't (or does it just get the info from hal ?)
Glad to hear it works. And thanks for noting the specifics in case it comes up again.