Comment 1 for bug 14422

Further investigation:

Burn4Free works fine in windows with the same disk ncb refused, so it's not a
hardware issue.

I tried cdrecord, and it tells me that it doesn't support dvd writing. I thought
this might be the problem, but getting dvd-tools or whatever package has
dvdrecord wasn't any better:

[22:15] [ben:/home/treed]% dvdrecord -dev=/dev/hdd -dao /tmp/image.iso
dvdrtools v0.1.5
[...]
dvdrecord: WARNING: Data may not fit on current disk.
dvdrecord: Notice: Most recorders cannot write CD's >= 90 minutes.
dvdrecord: Notice: Use -ignsize option to allow >= 90 minutes.
dvdrecord: Notice: Use -overburn option to write more than the official disk
capacity.
dvdrecord: Notice: Most CD-writers do overburning only on DAO mode.

So then I tried (the sudo is required otherwise it complains about not being
able to set RR-scheduler or some such):

[22:17] [ben:/home/treed]% sudo dvdrecord -overburn -ignsize -dev=/dev/hdd -dao
/tmp/image.iso
dvdrtools v0.1.5
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dvdrtools patched by Julien Delange for Debian
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Based on:
Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J\uffffrg Schilling
scsidev: '/dev/hdd'
devname: '/dev/hdd'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : '_NEC '
Identifikation : 'DVD_RW ND-3500AG'
Revision : '2.16'
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
dvdrecord: WARNING: Data may not fit on current disk.
dvdrecord: Notice: Overburning active. Trying to write more than the official
disk capacity.
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.
trackno=0
dvdrecord: Success. reserve track: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 53 00 00 00 00 00 23 39 66 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 200s
dvdrecord: Cannot open new session.