Growisofs won't run

[Nivel]

I am trying to run growisofs under HP-UX 11.11 to burn a DVD-RW. This produces a message "unable to INQUIRY: Permission denied". Anyone got any ideas? I am logged in as root, so can't imagine what permission I'm denied.

[Matti_Kurkela]

To burn discs, growisofs needs to issue some SCSI commands that are not part of the standard SCSI disk/CD-ROM/DVD command set.
To accomplish that, it needs "raw SCSI" access to the burner.

Raw SCSI access requires creating a /dev/rscsi/* device. The growisofs package does not do this automatically for you: it must be done manually.
Have you created a /dev/rscsi/* device for your burner?

The documentation for doing that should be available in /usr/local/doc/dvd+rw-tools, if you've installed growisofs from a standard depot available from software.hp.com.

MK

[Nivel]

Thanks for this. I have set up the required file in /dev/rscsi - actually it was already there, just needed changing. Also realised that growisofs cannot handle DVD-RW media, so now trying DVD+RW media. However, still not working and getting same message.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

HP-UX servers only use the + media.

I don't know why.

Media is the key with this.

SEP

[Steven Schweda]

> HP-UX servers only use the + media.

I doubt that the server itself cares.

> [...] growisofs cannot handle [...]

If (some unknown version of) one program
can't do the job, have you considered using
some other program? I normally use the
cdrtools package on my VMS system when I need
to make a CD or DVD. I know nothing about it
on HP-UX, but I'd suspect that it has a
chance of working.

I tend to use the latest alpha kit from:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/

I've done DVD -R, +R, and +R*2, but neither
form of RW, so I may know even less than
nothing on that front.

[Nivel]

Thanks for all replies. Still not getting anywhere though. I've tried 2 types of DVD + media. I've tried cdrecord, but this fails with several error messages (I/O error close track session, scsi sendcmd: retryable error). Versions are growisofs 5.18, mkisofs 2.01, cdrecord 1.10. Machine is HP C8000 btw. Anyone got any more ideas? Thanks in advance - will be awarding all points when thread closed!

[Steven Schweda]

> I tend to use the latest alpha kit from:
>
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/

> [...] cdrecord 1.10. [...]

> Anyone got any more ideas?

I still have the same one. I wouldn't bet
that cdrecord 1.10 knows what a DVD is.
(What is that, eight years old?) I last used
2.01.01a55, which certainly does. "a63"
seems to be available now.

[Nivel]

Thanks for all replies. I never got growisofs to run, as there was no explanation for the error message that I had. However, I updated cdrecord and that works perfectly.

[Glerick Dale]

I know this thread is closed, but I found out the problem and how to fix is was to create rscsi directory under /dev, then do a "mknod /dev/rscsi/cXtYlZ c 203 0x0XYZ00" substitute X, Y, Z for the correct value of the DVD character device file.

[Nivel]

Thanks for this, but I had already established that this file already existed in the /dev/rscsi directory.