Can't make Wodim see my cd

Christian Franke Christian.Franke@t-online.de
Wed May 28 17:19:00 GMT 2008


Bruce Dobrin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed that the newest release includes the cdrecord replacement wodim.  This is nice because I'm sort of stuck when I want record DVD's.  Here is the issue:  
> I'm on Vista Ult.  A version of cdrecord that I built myself back when Dinosaurs ruled the earth (WDRE) runs great,  but doesn't recognize DVD's.  On the REAL (old cdrecord)  I identify my cdrom as follows:
>
> dobrin@mano:/usr/share/doc/cdrkit-1.1.7.1> /usr/local/cdrecord/cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-cygwin) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
> [...]
>         2,0,0   200) 'MATSHITA' 'DVD+-RW UJ-857G ' 'Z111' Removable CD-ROM
>         2,1,0   201) *
>         2,2,0   202) *
>         2,3,0   203) *
>         2,4,0   204) *
>         2,5,0   205) *
>         2,6,0   206) *
>         2,7,0   207) *
>
> Indicating that I have a DVD drive on fake scsi port 2,0,0...  All is wonderful
>
> But on wodim:
> dobrin@mano:/usr/share/doc/cdrkit-1.1.7.1> wodim -scanbus 
> 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) *
>         0,7,0     7) HOST ADAPTOR
> scsibus1:
>         1,0,0   100) 'TOSHIBA ' 'MK3252GSX       ' 'LV01' Disk
>         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) HOST ADAPTOR
>
> End of story.  I tried wodim dev=2,0,0 -v /tmp/cdimage
>
> Not recognized
>
>   

Could not reproduce this on either XP or Vista.


> wodim dev=/dev/scd0 -v /tmp/cdimage
>
> Nothing useful
> ( I CAN dd from this dev )
>
> wodim dev=e: -v /tmp/cdimage
>
> And it laughed at me.
>
>   

Cygwin /dev/scdX devices are not supported by cdrkit, but drive letters 
X: should work and work for me.


> Is there a non-obvious syntax error here?  I tried various permutations using things like dev=ASPI:... etc based on the wodim --devices and dev=help...  But got nowhere.  It indicates on the man page that 
>
>   

Syntax is OK. I sent this problem report to cdrkit developer mailing 
list (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debburn-devel)

Christian


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