[Fwd: [Dvdrtools-users] Dvdrecord and recognising a MATSHITA DVD-RAM LF-D310 on Redhat7.3?]

[Alan Pence]

Lachlan,

I'm another disappointed owner of the LF-D310, and I didn't get any
further than you.  I did get the device to work as read only device
under RedHat 7.2 and under SUSE 7.3, but could not burn DVD-R (I didn't
try DVD-RAM as it is quite different, see the udf area on sourceforge). 
I was sort of falsely encouraged by a German press report that SUSE now
supported DVD-R creation, but a call to their tech support in the US
confirmed that this is incorrect (it was a good excuse to try suse
anyway).  I tried the 1.11.a05 and a13 versions of dvdrecord (with some
of the custom patches that you also found), but I didn't have much
luck.  I did exchange emails with Panasonic's Industrial tech support
(for the DVD products), and they have no help for linux drivers at all. 
I requested information so I could write my own driver and have had no
reply.  I've gone to plan B, where I make an iso image on a unix
machine, and then burn the DVD-R under windows.  So far, this works, but
I too would prefer to transfer my data under one OS (and use the UDF
format).

I've done some research on the web, and found mostly bad news for this
drive.  There are more references to using the Pioneer DVD drives than
the Panasonic, and folks seem to have an easier time getting them to
work.  I also contacted Jörg Schilling by email to see if he had any
experience with the LF-D310, and passed on what I little data that I
had.  If you check out his cdrecord web site, you can see that he has
had lots of problems with the scsi emulation for Atapi drives.  He says
that he is having a worse time with this Panasonic drive as it seems to
do some things in a broken fashion.  I think that he is likely right.
I'm also of the opinion that someone is trying to make it more difficult
for open source developers to roll their own DVD-R software.

It sounds like you are on the right track and have the drive working (as
I did), but I didn't get any further (and you have even tried newer
versions of the tool).  I'm interested in helping in the development
effort, but need to learn a bit more in order to be of much real help. 
My guess is that most of the problems are quirks of the drive, and will
work through with time.  If anyone knows of a way we owners can help,
please let me know.

Regards,
-Alan Pence
Systems Administrator

Lachlan Cranswick wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> (first post to this list after looking through the mailing list archives)
> 
> On the latest Redhat 7.3 - dvdrecord and related tools do not
> seem to recognise (as least on my system) an IDE/Atapi
> MATSHITA DVD-RAM LF-D310 as a writable DVD-RAM - only as a
> read only DVD (?)
> (this is using the following on boot in lilo.conf to make it
> look like a SCSI device /dev/scd0
>   append="hdd=ide-scsi"
> 
> dvdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder
> found on this target.
> 
> (this problem was happening on Redhat 7.2 as well - which is why
> I have been trying Redhat 7.3)
> 
> Is there a fix somewhere to this?  There have been glimpses of
> fixes after searching on Google - but the referring pages had
> disappeared? (custom hacks to versions of cdrecord by the looks)
> e.g.,
>  "DVD is a real pain in the arse
>   (Sub Title: Writting DVD-R disk using a Sun Sparc or Linux Box )"
>   http://www.unixhub.com/docs/misc/DVD.html
> 
> Output from the relevant(?) programs follow:
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Lachlan.
> 
> --+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-
> -+--+
> --+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-
> -+--+
> 
> address@hidden /]# dvdrecord -v -inq dev=1,0,0
> dvdrtools v0.1.3
> Portions (c) 2002 Red Hat, Inc.
> Based on:
> Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg 
> Schilling
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> scsidev: '1,0,0'
> scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
> Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
> atapi: 1
> Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
> Version        : 0
> Response Format: 2
> Capabilities   :
> Vendor_info    : 'MATSHITA'
> Identifikation : 'DVD-RAM LF-D310 '
> Revision       : 'A112'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD.
> 
> --+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-
> -+--+
> --+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-
> -+--+
> 
> address@hidden /]# dvdrecord -v -checkdrive dev=1,0,0
> dvdrtools v0.1.3
> Portions (c) 2002 Red Hat, Inc.
> Based on:
> Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg 
> Schilling
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> scsidev: '1,0,0'
> scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
> Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
> atapi: 1
> Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
> Version        : 0
> Response Format: 2
> Capabilities   :
> Vendor_info    : 'MATSHITA'
> Identifikation : 'DVD-RAM LF-D310 '
> Revision       : 'A112'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD.
> dvdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder found on 
> thi
> s target.
> 
> --+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-
> -+--+
> --+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-
> -+--+
> 
> address@hidden /]# dvdrecord -scanbus
> dvdrtools v0.1.3
> Portions (c) 2002 Red Hat, Inc.
> Based on:
> Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg 
> Schilling
> Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
> scsibus0:
>         0,0,0     0) *
>         0,1,0     1) *
>         0,2,0     2) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST373405LC      ' '0002' Disk
>         0,3,0     3) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST336737LC      ' '0105' Disk
>         0,4,0     4) *
>         0,5,0     5) *
>         0,6,0     6) *
>         0,7,0     7) *
> scsibus1:
>         1,0,0   100) 'MATSHITA' 'DVD-RAM LF-D310 ' 'A112' Removable CD-ROM
>         1,1,0   101) *
>         1,2,0   102) *
>         1,3,0   103) *
>         1,4,0   104) *
>         1,5,0   105) *
>         1,6,0   106) *
>         1,7,0   107) *
> 
> --+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-
> -+--+
> --+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-
> -+--+
> 
> address@hidden /]# cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
> CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.12 2000/10/18
> 
> drive name:             sr0     hdc
> drive speed:            0       48
> drive # of slots:       1       1
> Can close tray:         0       1
> Can open tray:          1       1
> Can lock tray:          1       1
> Can change speed:       1       1
> Can select disk:        0       0
> Can read multisession:  1       1
> Can read MCN:           1       1
> Reports media changed:  1       1
> Can play audio:         1       1
> Can write CD-R:         0       0
> Can write CD-RW:        0       0
> Can read DVD:           1       0
> Can write DVD-R:        1       0
> Can write DVD-RAM:      1       0
> 
> --+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-
> -+--+
> --+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-
> -+--+
> 
> -----------------------
> Lachlan M. D. Cranswick
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