growisofs (and hence k3b, and nautilus-cd-burner) can't burn dvd's for me anymore! I used to burn them fine, and I've had dvd+rw-tools version 7 since 2006! k3b reports there are no "problems" on startup.
I swapped drives, used different media, limited the speed, and tried all sorts of options from k3b, but no success. The k3b or command line error is pretty much the same. It fails when I hear the first "seek" noises from the drive: $ growisofs -Z /dev/hdc -speed=1 -R -J -relaxed-filenames -allow-lowercase -l Media Executing 'mkisofs -R -J -relaxed-filenames -allow-lowercase -l Media | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660. Setting input-charset to 'UTF-8' from locale. 1.62% done, estimate finish Tue Apr 15 13:05:39 2008 3.23% done, estimate finish Tue Apr 15 13:05:08 2008 4.84% done, estimate finish Tue Apr 15 13:05:19 2008 /dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 2.4x1352KBps. :-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error :-( write failed: Input/output error However, when I do the exact same command as root (su, not sudo!) it worked the first time, but not again: # growisofs -Z /dev/hdc -speed=1 -R -J -relaxed-filenames -allow-lowercase -l Media Executing 'mkisofs -R -J -relaxed-filenames -allow-lowercase -l Media | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660. Setting input-charset to 'ISO-8859-1' from locale. 1.62% done, estimate finish Tue Apr 15 12:01:55 2008 3.23% done, estimate finish Tue Apr 15 12:01:55 2008 4.84% done, estimate finish Tue Apr 15 12:01:55 2008 /dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 2.4x1352KBps. 6.45% done, estimate finish Tue Apr 15 12:05:16 2008 8.06% done, estimate finish Tue Apr 15 12:05:13 2008 ======== snip! ======== 99.93% done, estimate finish Tue Apr 15 12:05:01 2008 Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 50699 Total directory bytes: 92160 Path table size(bytes): 192 Max brk space used 82000 310213 extents written (605 MB) builtin_dd: 310224*2KB out @ average 2.3x1352KBps /dev/hdc: flushing cache /dev/hdc: closing track /dev/hdc: closing session and then: # growisofs -Z /dev/hdc -speed=1 -R -J -relaxed-filenames -allow-lowercase -l Media Executing 'mkisofs -R -J -relaxed-filenames -allow-lowercase -l Media | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660. Setting input-charset to 'ISO-8859-1' from locale. 1.62% done, estimate finish Tue Apr 15 13:10:29 2008 3.23% done, estimate finish Tue Apr 15 13:10:29 2008 4.84% done, estimate finish Tue Apr 15 13:10:29 2008 /dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 2.4x1352KBps. :-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error :-( write failed: Input/output error The failed dvd's are not coasters - I burnt one again as root, so not a thing is getting written to them on failure. >From google I found various suggestions - changing dma, kernels, etc. but I don't think these apply as it works as root on the same machine. I tried what I could anyway - no luck. I also chmod'd growisofs to suid root just in case, but this didn't help at all. I would appreciate any help! Thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Most burning issues generate far more heat than light. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
