Bored with cdrecord-ProDVD expiring?

If your key just expired on you, fear not. Gentoo apparently has a free pass. Fetch the key and burn away.

Oh, that’s just great. I still had a few processes running around that cdrecord-proDVD leaves when it alarms to death if you have an expired key.

Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
BURN-Free is ON.
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01:  226 of 3099 MB written (fifo  99%) [buf  97%]  4.4x.
/usr/local/bin/cdrecord-ProDVD: faio_wait_on_buffer for writer timed out.
/usr/local/bin/cdrecord-ProDVD: Success. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 01 C5 60 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 30 05 00 00
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)
resid: 63488
cmd finished after 543.051s timeout 100s

write track data: error after 237699072 bytes
/usr/local/bin/cdrecord-ProDVD: A write error occured.
/usr/local/bin/cdrecord-ProDVD: Please properly read the error message above.
Writing  time:  619.961s
Average write speed   3.8x.
Min drive buffer fill was 96%
Fixating...
Fixating time:    0.000s
BURN-Free was not used.
/usr/local/bin/cdrecord-ProDVD: fifo had 7838 puts and 3745 gets.
/usr/local/bin/cdrecord-ProDVD: fifo was 0 times empty and 1837 times full, min fill was 99%.

Apparently it crapped my perfectly good burn, in progress. Now I’m out a DVD-R. And no, I can’t use growisofs, it craps on my hardware and doesn’t support BurnFree. What’s more, it’s a bad hack.