You could always check out what k3b is using for the param's to burn the DVD (my Gentoo linux box is at home, but I could tell you when I get to the house tonight). Also, you have DMA turned on, right?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Henning Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 9:57 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: dual-layer blank failure rate That does seem silly, because of this line on the k3b website: "The actual burning in K3b is done by the command line utilities cdrecord, cdrdao, and growisofs." I'd give it a try anyway, but I need something gui-less.. And it would appear I'm already using the command-line utilities that form the back end of k3b. Though perhaps it's an issue of fancy command-line options that k3b uses.. ~B Matt Bidwell wrote: > Brian Henning wrote: >> Hi Gang, >> Just wondering if anyone else has seen a depressingly high >> failure-rate for blank dual-layer DVDs. For me, it seems like a good >> 40-50% of my blank discs crap out during burn at the layer switch; >> growisofs says ":-( write failed: Input/output error" at 49.6% >> completion. (It's so close to 50% is why I suspect something going >> wrong at the layer switch). >> >> Or is it something I'm doing wrong? Most often I'm burning >> single-layer media, either CD or DVD-RW. Is there something I need to >> do to tell the hardware to expect to have to do a layer switch? I >> sort of expected the drive to figure that out on its own. >> >> My growisofs command is thus: >> growisofs -Z /dev/dvdrw=dual-layer.ext2 >> >> where dual-layer.ext2 is a ext2-formatted 8.0GB loopback file I use as >> a staging area for creating backups and such. When it doesn't crap >> out at 49.6%, it works fine, so it makes it difficult to figure out if >> I'm doing something wrong. >> >> Cheers, >> ~Brian > It may seem silly, but I was having the same problems with > the prodvd-cdrecord and it was recommended I use K3b. > Since switching over, I haven't had any problems. > Also, which dvd burner are you using? Have you checked > for firmware updates? > Matt -- ---------------- Brian A. Henning strutmasters.com 336.597.2397x238 ---------------- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
