growisofs problems

[Demerson Zounar_1]

Hello to all,

I'm trying to record a DVD in a rx6600 with _NEC DVD+-RW ND-6650A in /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0, but I got the error:

:-( FAIL: command failed with SCTL_INVALID_REQUEST.
:-( unable to GET CONFIGURATION: I/O error
:-( non-MMC unit?

I was reading some threads about DVD+R/DVD-R compatibility, is it true?

Thanks.

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Demerson,

You need to burn media on these systems using an external non-USB DVD+RW drive.

This is due to differences in the architecture of the itanium systems.

Regards,

Jaime.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

My experience says on HP provided drives only R+ media or RW+ media will work.

Non HP provided DVD drives will probably not work at all.

SEP

[Steven Schweda]

I'm more of a mkisofs+cdrecord user, but I
would interpret those complaints as rather
severe I/O problems, not a DVD medium
incompatibility. ("Can't talk to the gizmo"
is different from "wrong medium type".)

Can we assume that you can do easy things
with this drive, like mount and read a normal
DVD?

Have you tried a different writing program
(for example, cdrecord), and does it also
fail?

Someone who knows something about growisofs
might be interested in seeing the actual
command which led to these messages.

> I was reading some threads about
> DVD+R/DVD-R compatibility, is it true?

Is _what_ true? ("It" is true for some
values of "it".)

[Demerson Zounar_1]

See answer #2.