wodim - no mmc_dvdplusrw driver?

[kyo]

Hello, I'm currently trying to burn a dvd+rw and I was having issues. I noticed cdrecord/wodim say the following:

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Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).

which seems incorrect?
according to an online manpage there should be a driver named "mmc_dvdplusrw" however trying to switch to that gives me the following output:

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$ cdrecord -v -driver=mmc_dvdplusrw -dummy dev=/dev/sr0
Illegal driver type 'mmc_dvdplusrw'.
Driver types:
mmc_cd_dvd          generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD/DVD driver (checks media)
mmc_cdr             generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver
mmc_mdvd            generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver
mmc_cdr_sony        generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (Sony 928 variant)
mmc_cd              generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-ROM driver
scsi2_cd            generic SCSI-2       CD-ROM driver
philips_cdd521_old  driver for Philips old CDD-521
philips_dumb        driver for Philips CDD-521 with pessimistic assumptions
philips_cdd521      driver for Philips CDD-521
philips_cdd522      driver for Philips CDD-522
tyuden_ew50         driver for Taiyo Yuden EW-50
kodak_pcd_600       driver for Kodak PCD-600
pioneer_dws114x     driver for Pioneer DW-S114X
plasmon_rf4100      driver for Plasmon RF 4100
yamaha_cdr100       driver for Yamaha CDR-100 / CDR-102
ricoh_ro1060c       driver for Ricoh RO-1060C
ricoh_ro1420c       driver for Ricoh RO-1420C
sony_cdu924         driver for Sony CDU-924 / CDU-948
teac_cdr50          driver for Teac CD-R50S, Teac CD-R55S, JVC XR-W2010, Pinnacle RCD-5020
cw_7501             driver for Matsushita/Panasonic CW-7501
cdr_simul           simulation CD-R driver for timing/speed tests
dvd_simul           simulation DVD-R driver for timing/speed tests

Soo.. the driver is not on that list, is there a way to install it?

[PaulL]

I believe there is some confusion here, since according to what I read, wodim and cdrecord are incompatible. How old was the link you were reading? If it's more than a couple of years old, it is likely to be out of date. There is good information on the Internet, but unfortunately there is a lot of bad information out there, too.

Wodim recommends installing cdrkit-doc, which apparently contains the documentation for wodim, so you should install that package, if you haven't already. If you installed wodim from the Software Manager, then the cdrkit-doc package will be current with the version of wodim you installed. See what it says about a driver. I would trust it a lot more than some Web site. Furthermore, the Linux kernel is supposed to contain drivers for all existing hardware that anyone still uses, so unless your CD writer is very new, you probably don't need to install a driver for it.

All that said, one site I looked at said that wodim uses SCSI-generic, so that message you got makes sense. Also, if you run apt show wodim, it says nothing about needing a driver. The only dependencies are libc6, ver. 2.34 or greater, and libcap2, verstion 1.2.10 or greater.

[kyo]

I think cdrecord is an alias of wodim? Anyways, the man wodim of my system says the same. How do I access cdrkit-doc after installing? I can't run it directly or with man.

[Hoser Rob]

Is there a particular reason you don;t use a GUI burning program? You could probably have burned dozens of DVD-RWs in the time it's taking you to figure out how to use this program. I'm hardly anti CLI, when I learned computers there was noting else. And sometimes doing something in the terminal really is the fastest and easiest way. This doesn't seem like one of those times at all.

[kyo]

Is there a particular reason you don;t use a GUI burning program? You could probably have burned dozens of DVD-RWs in the time it's taking you to figure out how to use this program. I'm hardly anti CLI, when I learned computers there was noting else. And sometimes doing something in the terminal really is the fastest and easiest way. This doesn't seem like one of those times at all.

I had issues burning them with brasero or xfburn, cdrecord would work more often. I also recall reading in other threads that currently there seems to be no good linux gui burning tool. Seems like most of the DVD+RWs I tried to burn just are broken or something, which sucks because they were new. Had to use some old ones instead.

[HyperBear]

I think cdrecord is an alias of wodim?

cdrecord was developed by Jörg Schilling originally, but due to disagreements with the Debian people, the Debian people forked cdrecord and named it wodim.

[HyperBear]

Seems like most of the DVD+RWs I tried to burn just are broken or something, which sucks because they were new.

Which brand? Verbatim? Sony?

And does it work on a different computer?

If you have a Windows computer at hand, can you test it there? If Windows fails at it too, it must be a hardware problem.

[kyo]

Seems like most of the DVD+RWs I tried to burn just are broken or something, which sucks because they were new.

Which brand? Verbatim? Sony?

And does it work on a different computer?

If you have a Windows computer at hand, can you test it there? If Windows fails at it too, it must be a hardware problem.

Verbatim, there was like one of them that worked out of 3. Though I didn't open/test all of that 5-pack. My old Fujifilms seem to work without issues. I don't really have another PC with a burner or windows install I could access (although I guess i could connect my old hdd with win10 on it and try if that works booting..). But I assumed that since it works with some of the DVDs and not with others, surely it must be the DVDs fault, no?

[HyperBear]

But I assumed that since it works with some of the DVDs and not with others, surely it must be the DVDs fault, no?

In my experience, some combinations of drives and disc brands don't work well together. For example, TSSTcorp drives seem to struggle with writing to CD-RW by SK. LG drives seem to not work well with PRINCO DVD-R media.

Would you mind posting the output of dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr0 (or whichever device number it is) while that DVD+RW is inserted?