Using `Growisofs` to Burn a Blu-Ray from An. Iso
In Using Growisofs to Burn a Blank Blu-Ray Disk from An. Iso File I Encounter the Following Error. /Dev/Dvdrw: Media Is Not Recognized as Recordable Dvd How Do...
In using growisofs to burn a blank Blu-Ray disk from an .ISO file I encounter the following error.
/dev/dvdrw: media is not recognized as recordable DVD
How do I resolve this problem?
The command I used was:
growisofs -speed=2 -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvdrw=/home/user/image.iso
This command was taken from this page, in the Blu-Ray part of the documentation:
Note that Nautilus shows the blank Blu-Ray just before I issue the growisofs command so I think I can assume Ubuntu is recognizing the device and disk medium. The screenshot shows the blank Blu-Ray in the upper left near the word "Device".
The machine is the Samsung RF711.
2 Answers
10040 is much too large for a MMC profile number. ... diving into growisofs.c and growisofs_mmc.cpp ...
This is a synthetic code made up by growisofs. Obviously it means "blank BD-ROM", which is quite a strange state.
Only plausible theory for now: The drive can only read but not write BD media. A "combo drive". The Samsung RF711 laptop is advertised with "DVD super multi" drive or "blu-ray playback". chip.de reports about a "Blu-ray-Combo" drive.
The drive manufacturer and model name should be told
dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvdrw 2>&1 | fgrep INQUIRY
Like
INQUIRY: [HL-DT-ST][BD-RE BH16NS40 ][1.00]
The following command should tell the list of supported profiles:
dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvdrw extra 2>&1 | fgrep -A 8 'GET [CUR'
A BD burner would report profiles 43, 42, 41, 40. Like
0000: 00 43 01 00 00 42 00 00 00 41 00 00 00 40 00 00
A BD combo would only report 40. Like
0000: 00 40 01 00 00 2b 00 00 00 1b 00 00 00 1a 00 00
Wasn't there a hexadicimal number at the end of the message ?
growisofs emits this message if the MMC media profile reported by the drive is not in its list of supported profiles. The full message is supposed to be something like i get if i try to burn to the empty drive /dev/sr0:
:-( /dev/sr0: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: 0
Among the supported profiles are "41" BD-R, "42" BD-R POW, "43" BD-RE. So the text about "DVD" is outdated.
Your BD medium is recognized by Nautilus, which probably relies on udev, which got the info from the kernel, which looks for the MMC profile number, too. So probably "/dev/dvdrw" is simply not the drive with the medium.
What happens if you use "/dev/sr0" instead ?
What happens if you do: eject /dev/dvdrw Does any drive tray come out anywhere ?
If you can affort to install xorriso, then you may get an overview of drive addresses by doing as superuser
xorriso -devices
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