Failed to burn DVD+RW

Stephen Liu satimis at yahoo.com
Wed May 3 23:59:21 UTC 2006


Hi Paul,

FC3
===

Tks for your advice and URL.

> It happens often here too, as k3b does not frequently erase/write
> over
> the contents already in the disk. Maybe, you should try to use
> growisofs directly. I have never experienced any problem with
> growisofs. Look at:
> 
> http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialCDBurn.html


Performed following tests:-


Burn data file to DVD: SUCCESSFUL !!!
=====================================
# growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /home/satimis/To_Burn.bz2
WARNING: /dev/dvd already carries isofs!
About to execute 'mkisofs -R -J /home/satimis/To_Burn.bz2 | builtin_dd
of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0'
INFO:ingUTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
        Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
        use -input-charset to override.
/dev/dvd: "Current Write Speed" is 4.1x1385KBps.
 11.99% done, estimate finish Thu May  4 07:19:14 2006
 23.98% done, estimate finish Thu May  4 07:17:59 2006
 35.93% done, estimate finish Thu May  4 07:17:34 2006
 47.91% done, estimate finish Thu May  4 07:17:22 2006
 59.87% done, estimate finish Thu May  4 07:17:14 2006
 71.85% done, estimate finish Thu May  4 07:17:08 2006
 83.80% done, estimate finish Thu May  4 07:17:04 2006
 95.79% done, estimate finish Thu May  4 07:17:02 2006
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 252
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 0
41772 extents written (81 MB)
builtin_dd: 41776*2KB out @ average 1.8x1385KBps
/dev/dvd: flushing cache
/dev/dvd: stopping de-icing
/dev/dvd: writing lead-out
* * * END * * *


Blanking a rewritable DVD: FAILED !!!
=====================================
# growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/zero
WARNING: /dev/dvd already carries isofs!
About to execute 'builtin_dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0'
/dev/dvd: restarting DVD+RW format...
/dev/dvd: "Current Write Speed" is 4.1x1385KBps.
.....
:-[ WRITE at LBA=230540h failed with SK=5h/ASC=21h/ACQ=00h]: No space left
on device
builtin_dd: 2295104*2KB out @ average 3.9x1385KBps
* * * END * * * 



Burning a data DVD :  FAILED !!!
================================
# growisofs -dvd-compat speed=4 -Z /dev/dvd -R -J -pad
/home/satimis/To_Burn
WARNING: /dev/dvd already carries isofs!
About to execute 'mkisofs speed=4 -R -J -pad /home/satimis/To_Burn |
builtin_dd of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0'
INFO:ingUTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
        Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
        use -input-charset to override.
mkisofs: No such file or directory. Invalid node - speed=4
:-( write failed: Input/output error
* * * END * * * 



Also failed !!! (without -dvd-compat)
===============
# growisofs speed=2 -Z /dev/dvd -R -J -pad /home/satimis/To_Burn
Executing 'mkisofs speed=2 -R -J -pad /home/satimis/To_Burn |
builtin_dd of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0'
INFO:   UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
        Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
        use -input-charset to override.
mkisofs: No such file or directory. Invalid node - speed=2
:-( write failed: Input/output error
* * * END * * *


Would the software be too old?  
# rpm -qa 'cdrecord' 'k3b' 'dvd+rw-tools'
dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8-2
cdrecord-2.01.1-5
k3b-0.11.14-2


# yum search 'cdrecord' 'k3b' 'dvd+rw-tools'
only found them there

Any advice.  TIA

B.R.
SL




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