media is not recognized as recordable DVD

[rleon]

I have a cdrw in the drive and I get the following error.

=== Step 6: Write image file to tape/CD/DVD media ===
+ /opt/ignite/lbin/growisofs -Z /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0=/var/opt/ignite/media/image.iso
:-( /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: A
+ Error 83 /opt/ignite/lbin/growisofs failed.
./make_media_install: ERROR: /opt/ignite/lbin/growisofs failed.


Any ideas would be great.

thanks

[rleon]

Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
============================================================================
disk 0 0/0/2/0.0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE TEAC DW-224E
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Media probably is not recordable to the hardware.

HP-UX servers I have worked with recently only work with RW+ media. The other type just doesn't work.

SEP

[Andrew Rutter]

hi,

first thing to check is the media you are using?

disk 0 0/0/2/0.0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE TEAC DW-224E

this drive is just a cdrw/dvdrom drive not a dvdrw!

are you using cd's or dvd's? in the drive to write to?
id dvdr's then it wont work

Andy

[Andrew Rutter]

hi,

forgot this,

http://www.teac.co.jp/dspd/product/optical/dw-224ea.html

link to the specs of the drive and supported media

Andy

[rleon]

I have a CDRW in there.
Now it does have data on it.

If I need to wipe it before I write to it how would I wipe it?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

> I have a CDRW in there. Now it does have data on it. If I need to wipe it before I write to it how would I wipe it?

Maybe with a cloth? :-)

I believe that you need a DVD as the error says. Beyond that, a CD isn't going to hold anywhere near what a DVD will hold.

Too, why would you re-use cheap media for something as critical as an Ignite image!?

Regards!

...JRF...

[rleon]

I am just making a bootable image that will take me to a shell on the cd that I can run commands from.

This is to wipe VG00 to security standards.

Right now the image is 283 MB. And it does what I need it to do.

But I had to download the ISO to my laptop to burn it and make a trip to where the sever is.

I still need to tweak it some and figured if I could write to it from the UX server it's self it would save me some time.

[Andrew Rutter]

hi,

do you have cdrecord s/w installed or the newer dvd+rw tools installed.

you can probably do it with these.

cdrecord is available on teh apps cd's and dvd+rw tyools maybe or can be downloaded from here

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPUXDVDWRITE

another thread you may find intersting is this one

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1235145123209+28353475&threadId=739517

with cdrecord there is an option to blank the disk

see this link at page 20/21 for details something similar to this

cdrecord -blank=fast /dev/cd???

http://www.cristie.de/fileadmin/FM01/PDF_allgemein/CBMR_HP-UX/PA-RISC/1.2.11/cbmr_quickstartguide.pdf

Andy

[rleon]

# /opt/ignite/lbinpa/cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'TEAC ' 'DW-224E ' 'C.0B' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
root@phgp0481w-/opt/ignite/data/scripts/examples
# /opt/ignite/lbinpa/cdrecord -blank=fast dev=0,0,0
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'TEAC '
Identifikation : 'DW-224E '
Revision : 'C.0B'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
/opt/ignite/lbinpa/cdrecord: Cannot load media with this drive!
/opt/ignite/lbinpa/cdrecord: Try to load media by hand.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R
/opt/ignite/lbinpa/cdrecord: Cannot load media with this drive!
/opt/ignite/lbinpa/cdrecord: Try to load media by hand.
/opt/ignite/lbinpa/cdrecord: Cannot load media.