DVD burning issue

[Paul Howarth]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 20:25 -0400, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 22:53 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>>> On Sunday 12 March 2006 21:12, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 11:33 -0800, Paul Smith wrote:
>>>>>       
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 3/12/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm trying to burn a data DVD with k3b (FC4), but keep getting the
>>>>>>> error "growisofs did not exit cleanly".  Any ideas, please?
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had a recurrent similar problem in the past. After having wasted
>>>>>> several disks, I decided to abandon k3b as a trustworthy tool for 
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> purpose. There is some workarounds, the simplest one is maybe to make
>>>>>> an iso file first and then use k3b to burn the iso file.
>>>>>>         
>>>>>
>>>>> I had that error also and then upgraded k3b to the latest version and
>>>>> now I'm not getting that error anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>
>>>> One other thing - on the last attempt I forgot to put the disk in 
>>>> before starting k3b's burn.  It demanded a dual-layer disk.  This 
>>>> drive doesn't handle dual-layer disks.  Could it be that something 
>>>> put in to handle dual-layer has actually broken normal dvd-r handling?
>>>>     
>>>
>>> It's always asking me for a dual layer disk also and it still take
>>> regular DVD+R though I've never been able to succesfully burn a DVD-R
>>> even with 2 different burners, using k3b, growisofs, xcdroast and
>>> cdrecord. And one burner was testing under WinXP and did succesfully
>>> burn a DVD-R. I also tried with a Knoppix or Ubuntu live CD and got the
>>> same results so it's not something that's related to Fedora specifically
>>> but at a lower level. So I'm gonna be using DVD+Rs for now until I can
>>> find a solution that will allow me to burn DVD-Rs.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Strange; I use DVD-Rs all the time (on two different machines) and
>> haven't had problems using them with growisofs or cdrecord. On the other
>> hand, I usually find I need to manually fixate DVD+Rs before they're
>> readable.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>>  
>>
> Is it not the machine that determines the +/-R required, different laser
> wavelengths and different dyes?  I thought they were not interchangeable?

My DVD writer will handle a variety of different media types:

$ cdrecord -prcap
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg 
Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to 
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in 
this version.
cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2).
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using 
setpriority().
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
scsidev: '/dev/cdwriter'
devname: '/dev/cdwriter'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version 
(schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c  1.83 
04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : '_NEC    '
Identifikation : 'DVD_RW ND-2500A '
Revision       : '1.06'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.

Drive capabilities, per MMC-3 page 2A:

   Does read CD-R media
   Does write CD-R media
   Does read CD-RW media
   Does write CD-RW media
   Does read DVD-ROM media
   Does read DVD-R media
   Does write DVD-R media
   Does not read DVD-RAM media
   Does not write DVD-RAM media
   Does support test writing

...

I've tried it with DVD+R media and that worked too, though I had to 
manually fixate the disc after writing it.

Paul.