[Debburn-devel] Pioneer DVR-S201 does not work with wodim

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

> I've been trying to record a DVD on a Pioneer DVR-S201 dvd writer,

That's a true antiquity.

Google "DVR-S201" and you will find:
 http://www.lafcpug.org/feature_dvd_comparison.html
which says that the drive burns only to DVD-R "Authoring media"
which are for "professional use".

The term "authoring media was new to me. Googled again:
 http://www.taperesources.com/dvd_media.html#article2

It seems that the "authoring" lacks of some copy protection
and on the other hand can be used as master for mass
production of DVD-ROM.


> why can't it just use it as a MMC2 drive?

Get some "authoring media" and try again.
It might possibly work.

But MMC-2 is nearly pre-DVD age.
It mentions DVD-R, DVD-RAM and DVD+RW.
That's only a third of our contemporary media zoo.

The drive seems to be among the early adopters of DVD-R.
So it might even need non-standard SCSI commands to be
operated. 


I googled for prices of authoring media.
About 150 dollar for a pack of ten.
You can buy two or three USB, SATA or IDE
burners for that money.

If you got no IDE controller or no ide-scsi emulation
in your operating system:
IDE-SCSI connection converters for hard disk are
cheap enough. But i remember that one needs special
adapters for burners.
I found this page which names two products:
  http://www.anodynesoftware.com/e4/bridges.htm
of which one (IDSC21-E) seems to have a commercially
available successor "R-IDSC-E": ~ 90 dollars.

So instead of buying 10 DVD-R "Authoring" you probably
can get a modern IDE burner, a IDE-SCSI adapter and
a 10 pieces spindle of DVD-R "General" media.
I personally would prefer to bet on that option.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas