Wodim burn error: Drive does not support RAW recording

[Bart Verwilst]

I tried burning an audio cd through Brasero, which didnt work. I tried the wodim command that Brasero uses on the command line manually, which gave me this error:

root@ubuntu:~# wodim -v dev=/dev/sr0 speed=8 -raw96r fs=16m -clone /tmp/cd.test
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '/dev/sr0'
devname: '/dev/sr0'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Wodim version: 1.1.9
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'MATSHITA'
Identification : 'BD-RE UJ-220 '
Revision : '1.00'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: 0x0009 (CD-R)
Profile: 0x0041 (BD-R sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0042 (BD-R random recording)
Profile: 0x0043 (BD-RE)
Profile: 0x0040 (BD-ROM)
Profile: 0x002B (DVD+R/DL)
Profile: 0x001B (DVD+R)
Profile: 0x001A (DVD+RW)
Profile: 0x0013 (DVD-RW restricted overwrite)
Profile: 0x0014 (DVD-RW sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0015 (DVD-R/DL sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0010 (DVD-ROM)
Profile: 0x000A (CD-RW)
Profile: 0x0009 (CD-R) (current)
Profile: 0x0008 (CD-ROM)
Profile: 0x0002 (Removable disk)
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 1474560 = 1440 KB
Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device
communication breaks or freezes immediately after that.
FIFO size : 16777216 = 16384 KB
Encoding speed : 522x (39093 sectors/s) for libedc from Heiko Ei�feldt
wodim: Drive does not support RAW recording.
wodim: Illegal write mode for this drive.

I havent been able to write a cd with Ubuntu since i got the laptop over a year ago.. :P

Do you need any other info to get this fixed?

Thanks!

[Bart Verwilst (verwilst)]

Creating data cd's still works when using Nautilus though. Any update on this?

[Schily (schilling-fokus)]

I have a 'MATSHITA' 'BD-MLT SW-5582 ' BluRay writer and this definitely supports
to write CDs in RAW mode.

So far, I havn't seen any modern CD-writer that does not support RAW mode.

As wodim is just an unmaintained fork from a very old cdrecord and as the
fork has just been created by some Debian packetizers in order run a
social attack against the cdrtools project, it does not make sense to discuss
problems that appear with wodim.

If you are interested, I would recomment you to join the cdrtools-developers
mailing list https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/cdrecord-developers

You should test whether the problem also exists with the latest original
software http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html

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

If the problem also exists with the original software, you could kill
hald and try again to check whether the problem is caused by hald.

[Bart Verwilst (verwilst)]

Thanks a lot for the comment Schily! I've found https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-burning/+archive/ppa, which holds an older version of cdrtools. I will upgrade that package to 2.01.01a76 and put it into my own PPA. I'll post my findings here when i tested it :) Hopefully my girlfriend will be able to use her cdwriter soon :)

[Bart Verwilst (verwilst)]

Added the latest version of cdrtools and smake to my ppa ( https://launchpad.net/~verwilst/+archive/ppa)! I'm currently waiting for the builds to finish, and then i'll try to install them on my girlfriend's laptop :)

[Bart Verwilst (verwilst)]

Well, just to let you know, all the deps pointed to wodim etc, which tried to uninstall brasero when i wanted to install cdrtools.. bleh.. And in the meantime, my girlfriend asked me again to burn an audio cd for her, since she has given up on burning discs with her laptop ages ago because of this bug, and it's again not succeeding for me as well.. it's almost 2012.. i would have thought it would be technically possible to burn a cd with Ubuntu by now ;) So sad.. Does ANYONE ever care to comment on this after nearly 2 years??

[Bart Verwilst (verwilst)]

Another year gone by, another year of dual-booting to windows to burn a disc.