Hello! I apologise - I don't use SuSe, Ubuntu etc., but rather Gentoo - however I am experiencing a similar problem.
I have an Amilo M3438G laptop running 2.6.20-gentoo (that's ICH6 for the IDE controller) and my DVD drive is /dev/hda. Here's the output of python cdcaps.py /dev/hda: CDO_USE_FFLAGS returned 13 got drive capabilities: 21fbef CDC_DVD_R support CDC_DVD support CDC_CD_RW support CDC_CD_R support got disc status: 0 I burn video-dvds with NeroLinux usually (NeroLinux 2.1.0.3). The dvds work fine in Windows and on standalone dvd players - just not in linux. Here's an example: sphynx ~ # dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/hda INQUIRY: [_NEC ][DVD+-RW ND-6650A][1.42] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: Mounted Media: 1Bh, DVD+R Media ID: SONY/D21 GET [CURRENT] PERFORMANCE: ..................... READ DISC INFORMATION: Disc status: appendable Number of Sessions: 1 State of Last Session: incomplete "Next" Track: 1 Number of Tracks: 1 READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]: Track State: invisible Track Start Address: 0*2KB Next Writable Address: 2291232*2KB Free Blocks: 3872*2KB Track Size: 2295104*2KB READ CAPACITY: 0*2048=0 An invisible track? UDF support is in the kernel. The kernel compains in dmesg "cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!" and when I try to mount the disc as UDF it says: hda: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 } ide: failed opcode was: unknown ATAPI device hda: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) Invalid field in command packet -- (asc=0x24, ascq=0x00) The failed "<NULL>" packet command was: "ad 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 " Error in command packet byte 7 bit 0 cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! This is not a hardware problem - the disc plays fine in WinXP. Also, if I open the disc in Nero I can browse the directories on it! I don't know what the problem seems to be - I have got conflicting advice from my google searches, but the point is, the error is similar across a lot of different possible causes. Regards, Vladimir -- hal detects written DVD as empty https://launchpad.net/bugs/14692 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs