Re: Unable to burn DVD+R

is it possible that you used the "burn cd image" tool to write a dvd?

On Monday 09 July 2007 12:42:33 Arno Schäfer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to burn a 3.6 GB ISO image (OpenSuSE 10.2) to a DVD+R
> medium, but when clicking on "start", I get the message:
>
> "Found media: DVD+R (empty)
> Please insert an empty CD-R(W) medium into drive"
>
> What does that mean? Why does K3B think it can burn 3.6 GB to a CD-R?
>
> If I use "force", the disk is created. But K3B does not seem to be able
> to detect the correct write speed for the DVD+R medium - it is marked as
> 16x, but K3B starts at 142x (!) and then switches back to 20x.
>
> Then it says "Enabled Burnfree" followed by "Disabled Burnfree". Why is
> burnfree first enabled and then immediately disabled? Why is it disabled
> at all?
>
> In the end, the verify succeeds: "The written image seems binary equal",
> but nevertheless the DVD is not readable! When trying to mount it, I get
> the message:
>
> /root>mount -tiso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
> mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, missing
> codepage or other error
> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so
>
> dmesg contains:
>
> cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
> cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
> ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> cdrom: sr0: mrw address space DMA selected
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> sr0: rw=0, want=68, limit=4
> isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=sr0, iso_blknum=16, block=16
>
> My writer is a brand new Samsung Writemaster SH-S183A, detected as
> TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S183A. The system is OpenSuSE 10.2 (x86_64), Linux
> 2.6.18, cdrecord is Wodim 1.0pre1, cdrdao is version 1.2.2. k3b is 0.12.17.
>
> Thanks a lot for any explanation or help getting K3B to work!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Arno



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