[gentoo-user] Dual Layer burn program

[gentoo-user] Dual Layer burn program

[Luigi Pinna]

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Hi!
How can I burn a 8.5 GByte iso? I tried with k3b and I receive an error 
and growisofs failed at 99.9% with input/output error.
I searched in portage but I didn't find a program with dual layer 
support. Nero didn't work (trial version already expired).
Thanks,
Luigi
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Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Layer burn program

[Uwe Thiem]

On 17 December 2006 16:28, Luigi Pinna wrote:
> Hi!
> How can I burn a 8.5 GByte iso? I tried with k3b and I receive an error
> and growisofs failed at 99.9% with input/output error.
> I searched in portage but I didn't find a program with dual layer
> support.

I don't think it's the burning software but the driver for those devices. I 
never succeeded to burn a dual or double layer DVD under linux.

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Layer burn program

[Dale]

Luigi Pinna wrote:
> Hi!
> How can I burn a 8.5 GByte iso? I tried with k3b and I receive an error
> and growisofs failed at 99.9% with input/output error.
> I searched in portage but I didn't find a program with dual layer
> support. Nero didn't work (trial version already expired).
> Thanks,
> Luigi

You may want to check the archives.  I think someone else had this issue
and found a fix or a program to use.  I don't have a DVD burner so I
wasn't following to closely.

Maybe someone can shed some light on this better if you can't find it in
archives.  Someone with a better memory. 

Dale

:-)  :-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Layer burn program

[Mick]

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On Sunday 17 December 2006 14:28, Luigi Pinna wrote:
> gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 6: Couldn't resolve host 'subkeys.pgp.net'
> Hi!
> How can I burn a 8.5 GByte iso? I tried with k3b and I receive an error
> and growisofs failed at 99.9% with input/output error.
> I searched in portage but I didn't find a program with dual layer
> support. Nero didn't work (trial version already expired).

If you follow an earlier thread of mine you may conclude (like I did) that 
doudle layer +R and dual layer -R are very media sensitive.  Some brands of 
DVDs always work, some rarely work and some never work depending on the make 
of your DVD writer.

Other than googling for other user's experience with particular media that 
have the same hardware like yours and perhaps looking at the OEM 
recommendations, I don't know what to suggest

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[gentoo-user] Re: Dual Layer burn program

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-12-17, Luigi Pinna <mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com> wrote:

> How can I burn a 8.5 GByte iso? I tried with k3b and I receive an error 
> and growisofs failed at 99.9% with input/output error. 

Growisofs works fine on dual-layer DVDs for me. 

I did have some failures when using a drive that was in an
external PATA/USB box, but once I moved the drive into the
computer and attached it to an IDE controller, it's worked
fine.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Layer burn program

[Mick]

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On Monday 18 December 2006 00:30, Dale wrote:
> Luigi Pinna wrote:
> > Hi!
> > How can I burn a 8.5 GByte iso? I tried with k3b and I receive an error
> > and growisofs failed at 99.9% with input/output error.
> > I searched in portage but I didn't find a program with dual layer
> > support. Nero didn't work (trial version already expired).
> > Thanks,
> > Luigi
>
> You may want to check the archives.  I think someone else had this issue
> and found a fix or a program to use.  I don't have a DVD burner so I
> wasn't following to closely.
>
> Maybe someone can shed some light on this better if you can't find it in
> archives.  Someone with a better memory.

It was probably one of those wild threads of mine?  :))

However, I was trying to burn a Double Layer DVD+R as opposed to a Dual Layer 
DVD-R with what seems to be a low end DVD writer.  After a number of rather 
expensive coasters and days of headache from excessive googling, I came to 
the conclusion that Double Layer burning is as temperamental as CD burning 
was 15 years ago.  From what I ascertained the brand of the DVD media is more 
important than any other parameter that I could I find.  Someone suggested 
using Verbatim, but I haven't yet bought any to try, because I could only 
find them in packs of 10 last time I looked.  By that time I had reached the 
no return point whereby any additional penny would be better spent buying a 
more expensive DVD writer in the hope of it being compatible with more DVD 
brands.  Then HD-DVD and Blue-Ray appeared in the horizon and decided that I 
could wait after all.

Good luck and post back if you find a DVD brand that works with your writer.

PS. K3B should be able to record DL DVD
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