[Dvdrtools-users] Help with Hitachi GF-1050 DVD-RAM drive

[Alex Nimmo Smith]

Hi,

Can anyone help me write to a Hitachi GF-1050 DVD-RAM drive (I can mount and 
read DVDs with it fine but can't write to it). I remember being able to write 
to this drive about 2 years ago with a ~ 2.2.12 kernel..... but now dvdrecord 
and cdrecord-dvdpro both fail to recognise the drive........

I had a quick look through the SCSI driver source - a patch was added for this 
drive back in the 2.2 kernel,  but since then the SCSI drivers have been 
heavily rewritten, and it no longer seems to work. I tried to revert to a 
2.2.20 kernel, but no luck with that either.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks!
Alex

uname -a: Linux swati.me.jhu.edu 2.4.18-6mdk #1 Fri Mar 15 02:59:08 CET 2002 
i586 unknown

address@hidden amns]# 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) *
        0,3,0     3) *
        0,4,0     4) *
        0,5,0     5) *
        0,6,0     6) 'HITACHI ' 'GF-1050         ' 'S00A' Removable CD-ROM
        0,7,0     7) *

address@hidden amns]# dvdrecord -v dev=0,6,0 -checkdrive
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: '0,6,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 6 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
atapi: 0
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : SYNC LINKED
Vendor_info    : 'HITACHI '
Identifikation : 'GF-1050         '
Revision       : 'S00A'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD.
dvdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder found on 
this target.