Hi, > I'm still unable to burn DVD+RW's with > growisofs and suspect a bug.
Most probably not the burn program is to blame. > I'm using TDK ... not a no-name brand Regrettably that is no guarantee that they will work with a particular drive or work at all. (Biggest bloop is LG giving away an unusable BD-RE media with its GGW H20L drives.) Standard advise in cases like yours is: get other media. This is unsatisfying but sadly it has the highest probability to provide a remedy. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dvd+rw-tools/+bug/59506 This is about growisofs detecting and reporting errors but not setting its exit value non-zero. This is (was ?) nasty behavior if you run it in a script. Nevertheless you do not report of any error messages. So i believe this bug is not related to your problem. > Is there a way of burning a dvd that circumvents growisofs? You can use cdrecord, or cdrskin, or xorriso, or the wellknown commercial burn program for Linux. My own experience as author of cdrskin and xorriso tells me that there is few hope for differences with DVD+RW media. The only interesting point about them is formatting. So the first try would be to explicitely and fully format the media: dvd+rw-format -force=full /dev/dvd or cdrskin -v dev=/dev/dvd blank=format_overwrite_full or xorriso -dev /dev/dvd -format full Then try to burn a session to the media. If you want to use my software cdrskin -v dev=/dev/dvd ma_vie_en_l_aire.iso or xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev=/dev/dvd ma_vie_en_l_aire.iso But i have to state again that there is few chance for the burn program to be the culprit. BTW: One should always eject optical media before trying to read them. All burn programs circumvent the block device driver when writing. So the driver is not informed about an eventual change in media format or content. (In your case the drive knows too much about the intended content. If that is solved then the Linux driver will not know enough about it until you let it load the media again.) Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
