Just received the DVD burner, but I'm a bit nervous; when I opened the box from Amazon, and looked at the back of the box from the manufacturer (inside the Amazon box), it only said DVD-RW. That's weird, because on the product page on Amazon, it specifically says, "DVD+/-RW." I'm really worried now that there's a chance the drive may not be compatible with both formats. Now that I think of it, this reminds me of an article I read in Ars Technica, a while back, about how many third-party sellers on Amazon intentionally mislabel their products in order to get more people to buy them. I thought almost all DVD drives sold today were compatible with both formats, so maybe the drive is still compatible with both formats.
Anyway, I did a
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sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog
to get the device name of the external drive, and repeated the instructions from before using the same xorriso-burned DVD from earlier by typing:
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xorriso -outdev /dev/sr1 -toc
which gave me:
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xorriso 1.4.2 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project.
xorriso : NOTE : Disc status unsuitable for writing
Drive current: -outdev '/dev/sr1'
Media current: DVD+R
Media status : is written , is closed
Drive current: -outdev '/dev/sr1'
Drive type : vendor 'HL-DT-ST' product 'DVDRAM GT80N' revision '1.01'
Drive id : 'KZ5D9H24934 '
Media current: DVD+R
Media product: AML/003/48 , UML
Media status : is written , is closed
Media blocks : 0 readable , 0 writable , 0 overall
TOC layout : Idx , sbsector , Size , Volume Id
xorriso : SORRY : Cannot obtain Table Of Content
xorriso : NOTE : Tolerated problem event of severity 'SORRY'
xorriso : NOTE : -return_with SORRY 32 triggered by problem severity SORRY
and, then, proceeded to type:
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xorriso -outdev /dev/sr1 -check_media use=outdev --
which gave:
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xorriso 1.4.2 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project.
xorriso : NOTE : Disc status unsuitable for writing
Drive current: -outdev '/dev/sr1'
Media current: DVD+R
Media status : is written , is closed
xorriso : FAILURE : No content detected on media
xorriso : aborting : -abort_on 'FAILURE' encountered 'FAILURE'
Edit: I just looked up the model and manufacturer with the help of the above information to check if the drive is compatible with both formats. At first, it's not at all obvious what the model and manufacturer of the drive is, but it looks like the drive is compatible with my DVD+Rs. I think Roofull is one of those white-label companies that rebrands drives that are sold to multiple companies.
Originally Posted by scdbackup
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