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

[Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

Alexander Puchmayr <alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> wrote:

> > I don't use k3b but I know when I burn a 25GB disc image using
> > growisofs, I have to disable the spare sectors otherwise it won't fit
> > on the disc, and it burns all the way until the end where it fails,
> > rather than "knowing" ahead of time that it won't fit.
> > 
>
> Don't think so, since the media I've burnt were 10G and 22G large.

What growisofs definitely causes with formatting the media is to make it slow.

Growisofs is not a cleanly writen application. It frequently returns slightly 
modified mode data to the drive that was fetched before from the drive. The way 
this new data is created is in conflict with the SCSI standard. Some drives 
still accept the data others do not. In some cases, sending back identical data
will even switch the drive into unwanted behavior. A quick statement could be:
It was written in C++ but looks like assembly code.... Note that there was no 
update since 5 years and several people reported less problems when using 
cdrecord instead of growisofs.

Jörg

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