SMART error and K3B issues

[Robin Laing]

Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have 2 things here that are bugging me a little bit, first one is I'm
> starting to get some SMART errors in my logs. Just a bunch of these:
> 
> Device: /dev/hda, 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors 
> 
> Should I be worried that my HD is gonna die soon?
> 
> 
> Also second issue I have is with K3B, whenever it finishes to burn a DVD
> I get an error saying that growisofs didn't finish cleanly and the log
> don't say that anything is wrong.
> 
> Here's what the k3b log looks like:
> 
> System
> -----------------------
> K3b Version: 0.12.10
> 
> KDE Version: 3.5.1-0.1.fc4 Red Hat
> QT Version:  3.3.4
> Kernel:      2.6.15-1.1831_FC4
> Devices
> -----------------------
> _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG 2.16 (/dev/hda, ) at /media/cdrecorder [CD-R;
> CD-RW; CD-ROM; DVD-ROM; DVD-R; DVD-RW; DVD+R; DVD+RW; DVD+R DL]
> [DVD-ROM; DVD-R Sequential; DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite; DVD-RW
> Sequential; DVD+RW; DVD+R; DVD+R Double Layer; CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW]
> [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96R; RAW/R96R; Restricted Overwrite]
> 
> Used versions
> -----------------------
> growisofs: 5.21
> mkisofs: 2.1
> 
> growisofs
> -----------------------
> INFO: UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
>  Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
>  use -input-charset to override.
> /dev/hda: "Current Write Speed" is 4.1x1385KBps.
>   0.04% done, estimate finish Mon Feb 20 09:16:09 2006
> A bunch of lines here.
>  99.99% done, estimate finish Sun Feb 19 20:17:17 2006
> Total translation table size: 0
> Total rockridge attributes bytes: 969
> Total directory bytes: 0
> Path table size(bytes): 10
> Max brk space used 0
> 1205663 extents written (2354 MB)
> /dev/hda: flushing cache
> /dev/hda: closing track
> /dev/hda: closing session
> 
> growisofs command:
> -----------------------
> /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hda -use-the-force-luke=notray
> -use-the-force-luke=tty -speed=4 -gui -graft-points -volid K3b data
> project -volset  -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2005 SEBASTIAN TRUEG
> AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher  -preparer  -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1
> -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-root/k3bHxl2jc.tmp -rational-rock
> -hide-list /tmp/kde-root/k3bbjDPlc.tmp -joliet
> -hide-joliet-list /tmp/kde-root/k3bVDf2za.tmp -full-iso9660-filenames
> -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-root/k3bLI0UIa.tmp 
> 
> And also when burning Video DVDs it doesn't use the -dvd-video option
> and the DVD is then unreadable as a video DVD, I can read the data off
> of it but it's not being recognized as a video DVD. Anybody ever had any
> issues like these?
> 
> TIA
> 

Yes and submitted a bug report.

If I make the iso using mkisofs and then burn it.  No problems.  I 
have to try growisofs direct to the DVD and see if that works.

If I do a simulate.  Again, no problem.

I don't have the bug number as I filed it from home.  Search the bug list.

-- 
Robin Laing