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

2013-07-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at wrote: I just made a simple test by renaming growisofs and then attemting to create a BD-RE disk (Re-recordables are nice, sine non-RW media don't grow in my garden ;-) Result: k3b complained that it cannot find growisofs and that it

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

2013-07-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, An account is required, running Gentoo is not. I understood it was for users who encounter bugs in Gentoo. That would be Alex, the OP. As i stressed too much already, the growisofs bug should be fixed in any case. If it is possible to let

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

2013-07-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, However, your patch is for growisofs, which in Gentoo comes from app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools, so the proper place for such patch would be cdwr...@other.debian.org per http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ -- On that list there was support by

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

2013-07-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, Okay, then, is your patch necessary when using this command: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0=image.iso with a DVD? No. I do not know about any growisofs flaws with DVD. As mentioned before: growisofs does not correctly follow the SCSI

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

2013-07-13 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Mittwoch, 10. Juli 2013, 01:26:18 Dale wrote: Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, paul...@andor.dropbear.id.au wrote: Settings - Configure K3b - Programs michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: This just displays what's there. I can't change any of the listed programs from this screen.

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

2013-07-13 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Mittwoch, 10. Juli 2013, 10:36:08 Joerg Schilling wrote: Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe one of these ideas floating around will help the OP. One big problem is the substantial price of BD-R experiments. Well, I am not sure

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

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
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

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

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, maybe the problem is when closing the session or writing some kind of lead- out, or the like. The problem is that the CLOSE TRACK/SESSION command is appropriate for the end of burning BD-R, only if it is unformatted or if it is formatted to SRM without Pseudo Overwrite. As soon as it is

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

2013-07-13 Thread Mick
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

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

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, michaelkintz...@gmail.com: 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 Joerg will heavily object, but my sincere opinion as technical expert on this field is that growisofs is the better

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

2013-07-13 Thread Bruce Hill
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

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

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, The proper place to submit a patch in Gentoo is bugs.gentoo.org I encounter obstacles like having no account and running no Gentoo. Have a nice day :) Thomas

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

2013-07-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 03:38:28PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, The proper place to submit a patch in Gentoo is bugs.gentoo.org I encounter obstacles like having no account and running no Gentoo. An account is required, running Gentoo is not. Maybe you can convince someone who is

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

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, An account is required, running Gentoo is not. I understood it was for users who encounter bugs in Gentoo. That would be Alex, the OP. As i stressed too much already, the growisofs bug should be fixed in any case. If it is possible to let K3b use cdrecord for DVD and BD, then i would

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

2013-07-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 07:03:15PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, An account is required, running Gentoo is not. I understood it was for users who encounter bugs in Gentoo. That would be Alex, the OP. My reply was to you, Thomas, rather than the OP, because you wrote: I wrote a mail

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

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, However, your patch is for growisofs, which in Gentoo comes from app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools, so the proper place for such patch would be cdwr...@other.debian.org per http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ -- On that list there was support by Andy Polykov until shortly after the bug in

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

2013-07-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 08:15:23PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, However, your patch is for growisofs, which in Gentoo comes from app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools, so the proper place for such patch would be cdwr...@other.debian.org per http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ -- On that list

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

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Okay, then, is your patch necessary when using this command: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0=image.iso with a DVD? No. I do not know about any growisofs flaws with DVD. (Besides its -use-the-force-luke magic which is reserved for those who read growisofs.c additionally to its man

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

2013-07-10 Thread Dale
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, paul...@andor.dropbear.id.au wrote: Settings - Configure K3b - Programs michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: This just displays what's there. I can't change any of the listed programs from this screen. So one should rather repair growisofs. It is not a big deal.

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

2013-07-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. In order to make it use cdrecord for DVD and BD ? (Cough.) growisofs is unsurpassed with DVD. I am a competitor of it (by libburn) and believe to be able to judge its doings in respect to the

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

2013-07-10 Thread Dale
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. In order to make it use cdrecord for DVD and BD ? (Cough.) growisofs is unsurpassed with DVD. I am a competitor of it (by libburn) and believe to be able to judge

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

2013-07-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe one of these ideas floating around will help the OP. One big problem is the substantial price of BD-R experiments. Have a nice day :) Thomas

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

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: cdrecord is installed, I have no idea why k3b chose to use growisofs for creating the 10G isofs. I did not try cdrecord (How can I change which programs k3b uses?) Settings - Configure K3b - Programs This just displays what's there. I

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

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. Just a thought. If growisofs is not available and if cdrecord at the same time is available, k3b should (if everything works correctly) select cdrecord. This may be a way to go. Jörg --

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

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. In order to make it use cdrecord for DVD and BD ? (Cough.) growisofs is unsurpassed with DVD. I am a competitor of it It seems that you are not

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

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I thought it might be worth a mention as a temporary workaround. If the growisofs file is removed, k3b won't find it and can't use it. Of course, it may not work at all then either. I'm not a k3b expert but do use it sometimes. Maybe one of these ideas

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

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe one of these ideas floating around will help the OP. One big problem is the substantial price of BD-R experiments. Well, I am not sure whether you noticed: the OP seems to have turned several BD-Rs into

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

2013-07-10 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 10 Jul 2013 08:57:07 Joerg Schilling wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: cdrecord is installed, I have no idea why k3b chose to use growisofs for creating the 10G isofs. I did not try cdrecord (How can I change which programs k3b uses?) Settings -

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

2013-07-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: One big problem is the substantial price of BD-R experiments. joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: the OP seems to have turned several BD-Rs into coasters already. The OP reports: I compared each and every file on the disk with its original, but yould not find any

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

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: My proposal is to fix and test growisofs. Well, growisofs is unmaintained since 5 years. The question is whether such a change would be suffucuent or whether there are many more problem (see the mode select problem I mentioned).

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

2013-07-09 Thread Mick
On Monday 08 Jul 2013 07:53:14 Paul Colquhoun wrote: On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 14:06:36 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: On Samstag, 6. Juli 2013, 23:55:52 Joerg Schilling wrote: [...] Any ideas what could have gone wrong? It is interesting that there is no error message in the output from

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

2013-07-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, paul...@andor.dropbear.id.au wrote: Settings - Configure K3b - Programs michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: This just displays what's there. I can't change any of the listed programs from this screen. So one should rather repair growisofs. It is not a big deal. Have a nice day :)

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

2013-07-08 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 14:06:36 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: On Samstag, 6. Juli 2013, 23:55:52 Joerg Schilling wrote: [...] Any ideas what could have gone wrong? It is interesting that there is no error message in the output from your attachment. k3b should usew cdrecord instead of

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

2013-07-08 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Sonntag, 7. Juli 2013, 17:19:30 Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at wrote: I just burned all my pictures from my last vacation on a blueray-disk using k3b, and for no apparent reason it stoped at 99.8% and complained an

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

2013-07-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@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

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

2013-07-07 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Samstag, 6. Juli 2013, 23:55:52 Joerg Schilling wrote: [...] Any ideas what could have gone wrong? It is interesting that there is no error message in the output from your attachment. k3b should usew cdrecord instead of growisofs in case that cdrecord is installed. Is cdrecord

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

2013-07-07 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at wrote: k3b should usew cdrecord instead of growisofs in case that cdrecord is installed. Is cdrecord missing or why did k3b use growisofs? Did you explicitely try cdrecord? cdrecord is installed, I have no idea why k3b chose to use

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

2013-07-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at wrote: I just burned all my pictures from my last vacation on a blueray-disk using k3b, and for no apparent reason it stoped at 99.8% and complained an error (I/O error). I checked the logs (see attached file),

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

2013-07-06 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there, I just burned all my pictures from my last vacation on a blueray-disk using k3b, and for no apparent reason it stoped at 99.8% and complained an error (I/O error). I checked the logs (see attached file), but could not find a hint. I compared each and every file on the disk with its

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

2013-07-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at wrote: Hi there, I just burned all my pictures from my last vacation on a blueray-disk using k3b, and for no apparent reason it stoped at 99.8% and complained an error (I/O error). I checked the logs (see attached file), but could not find a