[Off Topic] Burning DVDs
Jonathan Ryshpan
jonrysh at pacbell.net
Thu Nov 11 18:16:38 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 07:21, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 07:30 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 00:30 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > I'm trying to burn a DVD for installing FC3. I've downloaded
> > > FC3-i386-DVD.iso using BitTorrent; it checks OK comparing the
> > > accompanying md5 file MD5SUM.
> > >
> > > I've tried to burn a DVD using k3b; so far I've made 4 such DVDs.
> > > Unfortunately, these DVDs are all bad. K3b indicates a comparison
> > > failure, and invoking "linux mediacheck" on booting from the DVD
> > > indicates the same thing. Some of the DVDs won't boot at all.
> > >
> > > The CD/DVD drive is a LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S. The DVD blanks are
> > > Memorex 4X DVD-R. K3b was running in "Auto" speed burning some DVDs and
> > > in "4x" speed burning others.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know what the problem might be? Any idea on how to cure
> > > it? Different brand of DVD blanks? Clean the drive? Whatever?
> >
> > I have the exact same model of DVD burner running on FC3 with no issues.
> > I've burned a stack of 25 FC3 DVDs using TDK 4x DVD+R media with no
> > problems so far.
> >
> > I did notice a number of issues burning CDs and DVDs on FC2 just before
> > I switched over to FC3 (which I did at Test3). This was particularly
> > true when running K3B - it just acted outright "goofy" at times. It
> > could be something there. K3B seems much more stable on FC3 though. I'll
> > be switching over to Memorex 8X DVD+R media shortly and will post if I
> > run into any troubles.
> >
> > Sorry I couldn't help more, but perhaps my info will jog someone else's
> > memory or at least get you headed in the right direction.
> >
Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> Come to think of it (now that I've had a cup of coffee), you might try
> booting one of the older FC2 kernels, pre-2.6.8, as I remember they made
> changes to the the kernel starting there which caused some CD/DVD
> burning problems. You couldn't do it at all if you weren't root and some
> folks still had problems even then...
Beri, Rohit wrote:
> What version of kernel are u using?
> also do you see any issues burning CD-R or CD-RW.
>
> I know I was having issues burning CD-R/RW with kernel 2.6.8.xxxx
> so now I use 2.6.7.xx on FC2
I've had the same problem on two different systems (different hardware
and software):
FC2 running Linux version 2.6.8-1.521 with a SONY DVD RW DRU-510A drive.
The processor is an intel Pentium III
FC3 running Linux version 2.6.9-1.667 with a LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S drive.
The processor is an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
I'm aware of the problem with kernel versions. With kernels at or after
2.6.8, I haven't been able to run gcombust at all or cdrecord except as
root, but I have successfully made CDs using k3e. I have been able to
burn one DVD successfully, namely the one for the AMD system,
(FC3-x86_64-DVD.iso) on the FC2 system.
I have not had similar problems burning CDs. These are my first
attempts to burn DVDs, either data or video.
Thanks - jon
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