DVD burning issue

[Jean-Rene Cormier]

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.

-- 
Jean-Rene Cormier <jrc at jrcormier.com>