Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs

2006-07-11 Thread Andy Polyakov
...Am I right here ?:"When writing to a DVDRAM with growisofs I will get a filesystem identical to that of a DVD: udf or iso9660." Or you can make an empty placeholder on hard disk, losetup it, format to your liking and burn it. I mean growisofs is actually a recording program and formally

Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs

2006-07-11 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Andy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:39:58 +0200 > > What data transferrate would you exspect while writing to a DVDRAM? > > What does media case say? 3x? 2x? But no, not that much... Hmmm

Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs

2006-07-11 Thread Andy Polyakov
What data transferrate would you exspect while writing to a DVDRAM? What does media case say? 3x? 2x? But no, not that much... I know, that is slower than DVD+/-RW, since it does verify the data, Keep in mind that data written to DVD-RAM is verified immediately upon write only when explic

Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs

2006-07-11 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Andy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:43:35 +0200 Hi Andy, thanks for your reply ! > Folks! Do math first! Dataset size was reportedly about 4.4GB, while I/O > error logged at 4GB *exactly*. It c

Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs

2006-07-11 Thread Andy Polyakov
Folks! Do math first! Dataset size was reportedly about 4.4GB, while I/O error logged at 4GB *exactly*. It can't be some prefetch/pad bug! It looks as if kernel can't manage volumes larger than 4GB *at all*. Or at least refuses to... The problem has been "solved" (moved): For the device of m

Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs

2006-07-06 Thread Rob Bogus
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I did a blockdev --setra 8 /dev/hdd as root ( 8*512 byte = 4k ). Unfortunately the problem remains the same. It is necesssary to first test whether you're running into said kernel bug, before considering other possibilities. For this, you will need to set read-ahea

Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs

2006-07-06 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:32:18 -0400 The problem has been "solved" (moved): For the device of my DVD-burners there was "pktsetup" (for writing to DVDRAM) called via a initscr

Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs

2006-07-05 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> I did a blockdev --setra 8 /dev/hdd as root ( 8*512 byte = 4k ). > > Unfortunately the problem remains the same. It is necesssary to first test whether you're running into said kernel bug, before considering other possibilities. For this, you will need to set read-ahead to zero, not something s

Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs

2006-07-05 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:32:18 -0400 > Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >The System > >= > >Softwware: > >Gentoo Linux (recent stabl

Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs

2006-07-05 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> attempt to access beyond end of device > hdd: rw=0, want=8388608, limit=8388604 Writing files several times takes more space on disk than writing them all at once. Perhaps > dd if=/dev/hdd of=/tmp/dvd.iso > > The processes reports no error neither on user level nor in > the kernel log files

Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs

2006-07-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, The System = Softwware: Gentoo Linux (recent stable) with Linux kernel 2.6.17.3 (vanilla source). * growisofs by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, version 6.1, front-ending to mkisofs: mkisofs 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) readcd 1.11a15 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)

Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs

2006-07-05 Thread scdbackup
Hi, for subscription: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: probably you fell victim to false addresses on some web site. > Short before end an I/O-Error happens

Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs

2006-07-05 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, The System = Softwware: Gentoo Linux (recent stable) with Linux kernel 2.6.17.3 (vanilla source). * growisofs by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, version 6.1, front-ending to mkisofs: mkisofs 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) readcd 1.11a15 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1987, 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling