Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Saturday 13 Jul 2013 11:08:07 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > attemting to create a
> > BD-RE disk (Re-recordables are nice, sine non-RW media don't grow in my
> > garden ;-)
> 
> Yeah. A BD-R tree would be a fine thing.
> 
> Note that growisofs on BD-RE would not show the bug at the end.
> It happens only with BD-R which you submit in blank state.
> 
> If you treat your BD-R with dvd+rw-format before using them,
> the bug should not show up.
> 
> If you can talk K3b into using growisofs option
>   -use-the-force-luke=spare:none
> then it will not format the blank BD-R, work with full nominal
> speed, and should not show the bug. (There will be no Defect
> Management. So there will be no checkreading and no replacement
> of bad blocks.)
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I wrote a mail to media-optical@gentoo.org, proposing the patch
> for growisofs.
> Regrettably there was no reaction yet.
> 
> Maybe if enough Gentoo users complain ...


Hi Thomas, this problem can either be fixed by patching growisofs as you 
suggest, or by changing k3b to use cdrtools in preference to growisofs - not 
sure if this can be done with a USE flag.  The latter seems more reliable to 
me, because Joerg keeps his code up to date, but I don't know enough to make a 
case for either option.

Either way, perhaps the OP should file a quick bug report at 
https://bugs.gentoo.org/ and mention both options as a request.  Then the rest 
of us can chime in to encourage the devs to progress this.
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Regards,
Mick

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