DVD Burner permission question

[John Pierce]

> Second, are you getting any errors when you attempt to burn the DVD?  It
> would be helpful to know what they are.
>
Ok, I tried to burn an image today and I found this in the messages
log in /var/log:

Jun 25 13:02:20 linbook1 kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any
tracks I recognize!
Jun 25 13:02:20 linbook1 kernel: VMBlock warning: DentryOpRevalidate:
invalid args from kernel
Jun 25 13:02:20 linbook1 kernel: VMBlock warning: DentryOpRevalidate:
invalid args from kernel
Jun 25 13:04:22 linbook1 kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0
SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Jun 25 13:04:22 linbook1 kernel: ata3.00: cmd
a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x2a data 32768 out
Jun 25 13:04:22 linbook1 kernel:          res
40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Jun 25 13:04:29 linbook1 kernel: ata3: port is slow to respond, please
be patient (Status 0xd0)
Jun 25 13:04:52 linbook1 kernel: ata3: port failed to respond (30
secs, Status 0xd0)
Jun 25 13:04:52 linbook1 kernel: ata3: soft resetting port
Jun 25 13:04:52 linbook1 kernel: ata3.00: configured for MWDMA2
Jun 25 13:04:52 linbook1 kernel: ata3: EH complete
Jun 25 13:05:52 linbook1 kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0
SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Jun 25 13:05:52 linbook1 kernel: ata3.00: cmd
a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x35 data 0
Jun 25 13:05:52 linbook1 kernel:          res
40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Jun 25 13:05:59 linbook1 kernel: ata3: port is slow to respond, please
be patient (Status 0xd0)
Jun 25 13:06:20 linbook1 kernel: ata3: soft resetting port
Jun 25 13:06:21 linbook1 kernel: ata3.00: configured for MWDMA2
Jun 25 13:06:21 linbook1 kernel: ata3: EH complete
Jun 25 13:06:49 linbook1 kernel: sr 2:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code =
0x08000002
Jun 25 13:06:49 linbook1 kernel: sr0: Current: sense key: Medium Error
Jun 25 13:06:49 linbook1 kernel:     ASC=0x10 <<vendor>> ASCQ=0x90
Jun 25 13:06:49 linbook1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Jun 25 13:06:49 linbook1 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
Jun 25 13:06:56 linbook1 kernel: sr 2:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code =
0x08000002
Jun 25 13:06:56 linbook1 kernel: sr0: Current: sense key: Medium Error
Jun 25 13:06:56 linbook1 kernel:     ASC=0x10 <<vendor>> ASCQ=0x90
Jun 25 13:06:56 linbook1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Jun 25 13:06:56 linbook1 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0

It seems to be dealing with the burner and I have know clue what it all means.

I am making an image of a home movie and as soon as I can I will use
growisofs again and try to burn that image to a dvd+rw and give you
the output.

Thanks

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John
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