' Incompatible Format ' cannot Burn

Just at the point of all appearing to go well - movie completed, IDVD completed, burn process underway , I get the message ......
' the recording device reported the illegal request ; cannot write medium - incompatible format ( 0x30 , 0x05 ) .....
Any clues ?

Do you have Toast?
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save as Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/18.html
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. If you hold your mouse cursor over the pop-up it says: "Select a slower speed to work around burn failures," so select 4x or slower for best results. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

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I have tried with multiple blanks DVD-R and I cannot burn any DVD. It runs and then just says general failure. Any way I can troubleshoot this. I do not have another drive to test.
It says DVD MultiRecorder CD-RW
Is this in fact a DVD Burner.
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I have tried with multiple blanks DVD-R and I cannot burn any DVD. It runs and then just says general failure. Any way I can troubleshoot this. I do not have another drive to test.
It says DVD MultiRecorder CD-RW
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Arch x86_64 (up-to-date) on a Zotac GF-8200-C-E miniITX motherboard, Athlon II X2 240 CPU with an LG SATA GH22NS50 DVD+-RW drive. The drive reads CD's fine, but cannot burn anything successfully. The drive works fine on a WinXP system. I have tried burning as root with bashburn, cdrecord, and xfburn, to no avail. I have also tried changing the SATA section in my BIOS from IDE to AHCI to no avail and have tried various media. The drive has the latest firmware installed. Part of my cdrecord log is below - showing the errors:
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Track 01: 1 of 520 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 96%] 1.3x.Errno: 5 (Input/output error), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 02 0F 00 00 1F 00
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wodim: It looks like 'driveropts=burnfree' does not work for this drive.
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Average write speed 268.0x.
Min drive buffer fill was 96%
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00:09.0 SATA controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0584 (rev a2) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd. Device a100
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
I/O ports at 09f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0bf0 [size=4]
I/O ports at 0970 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0b70 [size=4]
I/O ports at dc00 [size=16]
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[Created at block.249]
Unique ID: KD9E.Am5rv5hXfm7
Parent ID: WL76.n+8cCHqK4_3
SysFS ID: /class/block/sr0
SysFS BusID: 1:0:0:0
SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0
Hardware Class: cdrom
Model: "HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH22NS50"
Vendor: "HL-DT-ST"
Device: "DVDRAM GH22NS50"
Revision: "TN02"
Driver: "ahci", "sr"
Driver Modules: "ahci"
Device File: /dev/sr0 (/dev/sg1)
Device Files: /dev/sr0, /dev/block/11:0, /dev/scd0, /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:09.0-scsi-1:0:0:0, /dev/cd/cdrom-1:0:0:0, /dev/cd/cdrw-1:0:0:0, /dev/cd/dvd-1:0:0:0, /dev/cd/dvdrw-1:0:0:0
Device Number: block 11:0 (char 21:1)
Features: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-RAM, MRW, MRW-W
Drive status: no medium
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #14 (SATA controller)
Drive Speed: 48
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scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GH22NS50 ' 'TN02' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
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Larry
Last edited by lagagnon (2010-08-11 16:35:27)

kfgz: thanks for the input. I tried your suggestion, but the burn still fails, this time with slightly different errors from cdrecord:
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Sending CUE sheet...
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Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium - incompatible format) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
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cdrecord: A write error occured.
cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
Writing time: 69.338s
Average write speed 51.3x.
Fixating...
Fixating time: 0.004s
cdrecord: fifo had 133 puts and 6 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 2 times full, min fill was 96%.
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