NEC 1300A DVD-R writing

Sat Jul 5 12:01:18 PDT 2003

Hi,

so I just bought a NEC 1300A, primarily, because it allows me to write DVD+ 
and -RW. Using DVD-R discs (and currently no options to try other media, due 
to shops being closed), I'm unable to write anything, using either the 
dvd+rwtools port, or the dvdrtools.

I've exhausted all references to be found in google, which are in a language I 
understand, so I'm hoping the list can help me out.

The hardware
=============
NEC ND-1300A
vendor info: http://www.necd.de/productdetail.php?id=671&lang=ENG
Shortlist, modes supported:
DVD single/dual-layers, DVD single/double-sided, DVD Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R(W), 
DVD+R(W), CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-Text, CD-Video, CD-Extra, CD-DA, Photo-CD 
(single-/multisession), CD-R(W)

The media
=============
GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
 Mounted Media:         11h, DVD-R Sequential
READ DVD STRUCTURE[#E]:
 Data Recordable Area:  16621272
 MediaID:               PRINCO      
READ DVD STRUCTURE[#10h]:
 Media Book Type:       25h, DVD-R book [revision 5]
 Legacy lead-out at:    2298495*2KB=4707317760
READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]:
 Media Book Type:       25h, DVD-R book [revision 5]
 Last border-out at:    2298495*2KB=4707317760
READ DISC INFORMATION:
 Disc status:           blank
 Number of Sessions:    1
 State of Last Session: empty
 Number of Tracks:      1
READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]:
 Track State:           invisible incremental
 Track Start Address:   0*2KB
 Next Writable Address: 0*2KB
 Free Blocks:           2297888*2KB
 Track Size:            2297888*2KB

The result
=============
root at ghost      /usr/local/video/iso
$ dvdrecord -vv -dao dev=1,0,0 out/DivX1.iso
dvdrtools v0.1.4

^^^ note: this is actually dvdrtools_fbsd-0.1.5 downloaded from
http://machiel.generaal.net/files/

[ snip licence ]

Based on:
Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-unknown-freebsd4.8) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg 
Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'bero-0.5a'
dvdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (bero-0.5a 
'@(#)scsitransp.c     1.81 01/04/20 Copyright 1988,1995,2000 J. Schilling').
Using libscg transport code version 'schily-scsi-bsd.c-1.40'
atapi: 0
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : 
Vendor_info    : '_NEC    '
Identifikation : 'DVD_RW ND-1300A '
Revision       : '1.05'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 1605632 = 1568 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data  697 MB        
track: 1 start: 0 pregap: 150
Total size:     800 MB (79:18.40) = 356880 sectors
Lout start:     800 MB (79:20/30) = 356880 sectors
 41 00 00 14 00 00 00 00
 41 01 00 10 00 00 00 00
 41 01 01 10 00 00 02 00
 41 AA 01 14 00 4F 14 1E
Track 1 start 0
Track 2 start 356880
 41 00 A0 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00
 41 00 A1 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00
 41 00 A2 00 00 00 00 79 20 30 00 00
 41 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00
Current Secsize: 2048
  ATIP start of lead in:  -150 (00:00/00)
Disk type:    unknown dye (reserved id code)
Manuf. index: -1
Manufacturer: unknown (not in table)
Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks remaining: 1941616
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 9 
[ ... ]
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
trackno=0
BURN-Free is ON.
dvdrecord: Input/output error. reserve track: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB:  53 00 00 00 00 00 05 72 10 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 30 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium - incompatible format) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 200s
dvdrecord: Cannot open new session.
dvdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets.
dvdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
root at ghost      /usr/local/video/iso
$ growisofs -Z /dev/cd0c -dvd-compat -r -J -iso-level 2 -l in
Executing 'mkisofs -r -J -iso-level 2 -l in | builtin_dd of=/dev/pass0 obs=32k 
seek=0'
:-[ LBA=0h, SENSE KEY=5h/ASC=30h/ASCQ=05h ]
:-[ media is not formatted or unsupported ]
:-( write failed: Invalid argument
root at ghost      /usr/local/video/iso
$ camcontrol devlist
<_NEC DVD_RW ND-1300A 1.05>        at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,cd0)
<DVD-16X DVD-ROM BDV316C .20H>     at scbus1 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,cd1)
root at ghost      /usr/local/video/iso
$ cdrecord --scanbus
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i386-unknown-freebsd4.8) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg 
Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus1:
        1,0,0   100) '_NEC    ' 'DVD_RW ND-1300A ' '1.05' Removable CD-ROM
        1,1,0   101) 'DVD-16X ' 'DVD-ROM BDV316C ' '.20H' Removable CD-ROM
        1,2,0   102) *
        1,3,0   103) *
        1,4,0   104) *
        1,5,0   105) *
        1,6,0   106) *
        1,7,0   107) *

If more info is needed, let me know.

-- 
Melvyn
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