Re: i/o error dvd+rw-tools

[Charles Mire]

I'm perfectly comfortable dowloading and compiling from source.  Most of the time, that's what I do anyways.  However, since the version if cdrecord I have is specifically an unsupported one (I'm just a user stuck in the middle here), and SuSE uses /media/whatever and the supported versions of cdrecord require /dev/whatever (that's the gist of what I understood from the freshmeat.net postings -- I got bored reading the postings b/c of all the animousity....I just want to get dvd burning to work so I can burn some iso's and try some other distros that are more FOSS, etc.).  I am concerned that if I compile from source, etc. I could break what I have and be left with no cd or dvd burning functionality whatsoever.  I'm not one of the SuSE developers, so I have no idea what all they customized or what I should watch out for.

I've tried using hdparm to view/adjust the settings on the drive (I used -c to up the mode to 32-bit...it was set at 16-bit...that seemed strange to me).  That didn't really affect the outcome -- still getting coasters.

Are there any other options I could try?

Charles

On 11/5/06, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

"Charles Mire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> linux1:~ # growisofs -Z /dev/hdc=/home/cmire/linux_isos/kubuntu-
> 6.06.1-dvd-i386.iso
> Executing 'builtin_dd
> if=/home/cmire/linux_isos/kubuntu-6.06.1-dvd-i386.isoof=/dev/hdc
> obs=32k seek=0'
> :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error

If you did use cdrecord, you would get a readable error message ;-)

> Also, I do know SuSE is using a customized variant of cdrecord, but I don't
> think that specifically is causing the problem here.  The BTC drive burns
> cd-r's fine.

today, you cannot trust most Linux distributions anymore as many of them
spread the broken Debian speudo fork.....

If you like to get a working cdrecord, you need to feth it yourself and
compile it as people did 10 years ago.

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/

Forward and welcome to the past....



Jörg

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