Are RWs a problem?

[John Wendel]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 March 2006 20:40, Mike Chambers wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 16:12 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>
>>>Something very odd is happening with these disks.  I get errors, as I
>>>said, if I ask it to simulate.  I tried doing a burn without a
>>>simulation, and it went through the whole process, but then said it
>>>couldn't read the ISO9660 file system.  Attemptint to mount the disk says
>>>that it doesn't exist.
>>
>>I just talked about this very subject on the fedora beta list.  It seems
>>if I burn a new cd-rw disk, it seems to work fine.  But if I try to
>>reburn it, it wouldn't do it.  I think someone mentioned that they
>>unmounted it and it still had problems.
>>
> 
> I'm fairly sure that I've tracked it down, Mike.
> 
> Someone told me off-list to try to burn a short iso using cdrecord in a 
> terminal.  The command I used was
> 
> cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd -vvvvvvvv -blank=disc /home/anne/test.iso
> 
> and it failed.  I googled on 'faio_wait_on_buffer for writer timed out' and 
> found that others were complaining of the same problem.  Then someone 
> reported that if you split the command into two, it works perfectly, so I did
> 
> cdrecord -vv dev=/dev/hdd blank=all
> cdrecord -vv dev=/dev/hdd /home/anne/test.iso
> 
> and it wrote perfectly - this to a disk that k3b had been totally unable to 
> deal with.
> 
> It looks as though there is actually a bug in cdrecord, which is causing k3b 
> to fail.
> 
> Anne
> 
> 
> 
> 

Nice catch!

Which versions of cdrecord and k3b are you using?

Thanks,

John