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

[Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 12:08:07PM +0200, 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 ...
> 
> 
> Have a nice day :)
> 
> Thomas
 
The proper place to submit a patch in Gentoo is bugs.gentoo.org

Thanks for your efforts, Thomas.
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