I have exactly the same issue; can burn music, data, image cd's, but no dvd's! brasero, gnomebaker or K3b with extracodecs packages! I am using Ubuntu 9.10 karmic Koala. with 9.04 had no problem!!!
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Slimtype DVD A DS8A1P CA11 (/dev/sr0, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL) [DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R, Restricted Overwrite, Layer Jump] [%7]
System
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K3b Version: 1.68.0
KDE Version: 4.3.5 (KDE 4.3.5)
QT Version: 4.5.2
Kernel: 2.6.31-19-generic
Used versions
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cdrecord: 1.1.9
cdrecord
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/usr/bin/wodim: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits.
scsidev: '/dev/sr0'
devname: '/dev/sr0'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Wodim version: 1.1.9
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device
communication breaks or freezes immediately after that.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'Slimtype'
Identification : 'DVD A DS8A1P '
Revision : 'CA11'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: 0x001B (DVD+R)
Profile: 0x002B (DVD+R/DL)
Profile: 0x001B (DVD+R) (current)
Profile: 0x001A (DVD+RW)
Profile: 0x0016 (DVD-R/DL layer jump recording)
Profile: 0x0015 (DVD-R/DL sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0014 (DVD-RW sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0013 (DVD-RW restricted overwrite)
Profile: 0x0012 (DVD-RAM)
Profile: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0010 (DVD-ROM)
Profile: 0x000A (CD-RW)
Profile: 0x0009 (CD-R)
Profile: 0x0008 (CD-ROM)
Profile: 0x0002 (Removable disk)
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 1029888 = 1005 KB
FIFO size : 12582912 = 12288 KB
Speed set to 11080 KB/s
Track 01: data 1497 MB
Total size: 1719 MB (170:20.16) = 766512 sectors
Lout start: 1719 MB (170:22/12) = 766512 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
HINT: use dvd+rw-mediainfo from dvd+rw-tools for information extraction.
Blocks total: 2295104 Blocks current: 2295104 Blocks remaining: 1528592
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8.0 in real SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 2 seconds.
1 seconds.
0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... Errno: 5 (Input/output error), reserve track scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 53 00 00 00 00 00 0B B2 30 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 73 03 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 35.345s timeout 200s
/usr/bin/wodim: Cannot open new session.
input buffer ready.
Writing time: 35.408s
/usr/bin/wodim: fifo had 192 puts and 0 gets.
/usr/bin/wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
cdrecord command:
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/usr/bin/wodim -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/sr0 speed=8 -sao driveropts=burnfree -data -tsize=766512s -"
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