Comment 86 for bug 15424

Have just encountered the same problem myself. Manifested itself as growisofs ceasing to function following an upgrade from gutsy to hardy (I hadn't tried to write a DVD for some time after the upgrade). Same problem occurred with the intrepid and jaunty versions of growisofs. Using TDK DVD-R media on a Philips PBDV1640P revision B3.4.

After much messing around I discovered that omitting the -dvd-compat switch from the growisofs command line makes it work... so the command I ended up running was:

$ growisofs -Z /dev/scd0=foo.iso

Proof that it worked:

$ md5sum foo.iso /dev/scd0
a7e18f22eb98f8d62caf1ffcb30c70dc foo.iso
a7e18f22eb98f8d62caf1ffcb30c70dc /dev/scd0

dvdrecord didn't work either and I couldn't make it work; sample of output:

$ dvdrecord -v driveropts=burnfree speed=1 dev=1,0,0 -dao foo.iso
dvdrtools v0.3.1
Portions (C) 2002-2006 Ark Linux <email address hidden>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
Based on:
Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�g Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34
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').
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'PHILIPS '
Identifikation : 'PBDV1640P '
Revision : 'B3.4'
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 : 688128 = 672 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 4404 MB
Total size: 5058 MB (501:08.05) = 2255104 sectors
Lout start: 5058 MB (501:10/04) = 2255104 sectors
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: 43392
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
trackno=0
BURN-Free is ON.
dvdrecord: Turning BURN-Free on
Performing OPC...
Sending CUE sheet...
Starting new track at sector: 2255270
Track 01: 0 of 4404 MB written.dvdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2A 00 00 22 69 A6 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 21 02 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x02 (logical block address out of range) [No matching qualifier] Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.006s timeout 200s

write track data: error after 0 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Writing time: 12.800s
Fixating...
Fixating time: 0.007s
dvdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets.
dvdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.

Googling around the place reveals quite a lot of reports of this with the following characteristics in common:

- It always strikes following an upgrade
- CD recording still works, it's only DVDs that don't
- Both growisofs and dvdrecord have problems, but different ones, and if a problem strikes one program it doesn't necessarily mean it'll strike the other
- It affects users of all the main distributions
- Upgrading the dvd tools never fixes it
- Nor does anything else, and nobody seems to have a clue what's going on
- Some people are misled into thinking it's a hardware fault as it disappears when they replace the drive with a totally different model. Nobody seems to have tried replacing the drive with a brand new example of the model they already have. I rather suspect that if they did they'd find it still didn't work.

My suspicion is that the problem is actually in the kernel, not the tools, and affects particular models/revisions of DVD drive.

Kernel here is 2.6.27-7-generic from ubuntu.