Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:00:06 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>    
>>> K3b is running mkisofs and growisofs at the same time, hence the
>>> mixed up debug output making it hard to see where the error is coming
>>> from. Take the media, drive and growisofs out of the equation by
>>> getting K3b to create an ISO image instead. If that works, write the
>>> image to disc with
>>>
>>> growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=/path/to/file.iso
>>>
>>> At least you'll have a better idea where the problem lies.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Could I just get rid of one of the programs or are they all part of the
>> same package?  I suspect a mismatch of package versions which is why I
>> went unstable with k3b and cdrtools.
>>
>> It is odd that it is trying to run two programs at the same time tho.
>>      
> Not really, mkisofs is creating the ISO data and growisofs is writing it
> to the disc. Basically, the output of mkisofs is piped through growisofs
> to the disc. The alternative is to write an ISO image file and then burn
> it to disc, which is slower but what I suggested to see where the problem
> lies.
>
>
>    

OK.  I went back to k3b and tried to burn a Gentoo install disc which is 
a iso image.  This is what it gives when I do that.

Devices
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Optiarc DVD RW AD-7200A 1.05 (/dev/hdd, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, 
DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL) [DVD-ROM, DVD-R 
Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump, DVD-RAM, 
DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R 
Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, 
RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R, Restricted Overwrite, Layer Jump] [%7]

System
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K3b Version: 1.91.0
KDE Version: 4.4.1 (KDE 4.4.1)
QT Version:  4.6.2
Kernel:      2.6.30-gentoo-r8

Used versions
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cdrecord: 2.1.1a77

cdrecord
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scsidev: '/dev/hdd'
devname: '/dev/hdd'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
SCSI buffer size: 64512
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped.
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a77 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 
1995-2010 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'Optiarc '
Identifikation : 'DVD RW AD-7200A '
Revision       : '1.05'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM.
Current: DVD+RW
Profile: DVD+R/DL
Profile: DVD+R
Profile: DVD+RW (current)
Profile: DVD-R/DL layer jump recording
Profile: DVD-R/DL sequential recording
Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording
Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite
Profile: DVD-RAM
Profile: DVD-R sequential recording
Profile: DVD-ROM
Profile: CD-RW
Profile: CD-R
Profile: CD-ROM
Profile: Removable Disk
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+RW driver (mmc_dvdplusrw).
Driver flags   : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP
Drive buf size : 1245184 = 1216 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data  2591 MB
Total size:     2591 MB = 1326592 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
Trying to clear drive status.
Blocks total: 2295104 Blocks current: 2295104 Blocks remaining: 968512
Reducing transfer size from 64512 to 32768 bytes.
Starting to write CD/DVD/BD at speed 4 in real SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 3 seconds.
    2 seconds.
    1 seconds.
    0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 02:    0 of 2591 MB written.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Success. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 73 03 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
resid: 32768
cmd finished after 17.339s timeout 200s
/usr/bin/cdrecord: A write error occured.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
write track data: error after 0 bytes
Writing  time:   22.358s
Average write speed  87.7x.
Fixating...
Fixating time:    0.003s
/usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 128 puts and 1 gets.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 
100%.
BURN-Free was not used.

cdrecord command:
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/usr/bin/cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/hdd speed=4 -sao 
driveropts=burnfree -data -tsize=1326592s -


This appears to be using cdrecord.  Any ideas?  Should I shoot it?  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)