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MrPatRyan · 06-23-2009, 08:55 PM

I'm experiencing general weirdness trying to burn CD / DVD's to a Sony NEC AD 7220 A CD / DVD RW drive on a Solaris 10 x86 AMD system.

I've done a lot of searching and haven't found any threads with people having the same symptoms as me.

I have a Sony Optiarc AD 7220 A CD-RW on a x86 AMD Athalon 1.6 ghz based server with 2 GB RAM.

The DVD-RW drive gets detected by BIOS (Phoenix TrustedCore 2.3) and reads disks fine. I installed Solaris 10.08 from a DVD using this drive.

However, trying to write to new blank media does not work properly, or at all.

1. Inside the Solaris 10 GUI (Gnome, a.k.a. Java Desktop), when I put in a blank CD-R, a dialog box "Format Media...?" pops up. If I click "Ok" it formats the blank CD and closes the session, CD ruined.

2. I open a terminal window, as root, and put in a blank CD. "mkisofs –r /home/foo 2>/dev/null | cdrw –i –p 1" will write a directory tree OK, but if I go back into gnome GUI and open and close the CD tray, again, up pops the "Format Media..." dialog box instead of the CD appearing on the desktop. If I restart vold (svcadm restart volfs) then open and close the CD tray, voila, the contents appear on desktop as CD icon.

3. When I try to write to a DVD-R: "cdrw -i /local/iso_image" It always fails with: Write Track 1....Failed. after a few minutes. It did in fact write part of the .iso but bails out with a failure.

06-23-2009, 08:55 PM	#1 (permalink)
MrPatRyan Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 2 OS: XP Pro SP2	[SOLVED] Solaris 10 x86 DVD-RW Funky Behavior on Writes I'm experiencing general weirdness trying to burn CD / DVD's to a Sony NEC AD 7220 A CD / DVD RW drive on a Solaris 10 x86 AMD system. I've done a lot of searching and haven't found any threads with people having the same symptoms as me. I have a Sony Optiarc AD 7220 A CD-RW on a x86 AMD Athalon 1.6 ghz based server with 2 GB RAM. The DVD-RW drive gets detected by BIOS (Phoenix TrustedCore 2.3) and reads disks fine. I installed Solaris 10.08 from a DVD using this drive. However, trying to write to new blank media does not work properly, or at all. 1. Inside the Solaris 10 GUI (Gnome, a.k.a. Java Desktop), when I put in a blank CD-R, a dialog box "Format Media...?" pops up. If I click "Ok" it formats the blank CD and closes the session, CD ruined. 2. I open a terminal window, as root, and put in a blank CD. "mkisofs –r /home/foo 2>/dev/null \| cdrw –i –p 1" will write a directory tree OK, but if I go back into gnome GUI and open and close the CD tray, again, up pops the "Format Media..." dialog box instead of the CD appearing on the desktop. If I restart vold (svcadm restart volfs) then open and close the CD tray, voila, the contents appear on desktop as CD icon. 3. When I try to write to a DVD-R: "cdrw -i /local/iso_image" It always fails with: Write Track 1....Failed. after a few minutes. It did in fact write part of the .iso but bails out with a failure.