Re: How to burn a 6.8GB ISO onto a DVD-R DL media

This turned out to be a bad hardware or firmware. I've since upgraded to a
LG 18x Super Multi DVD Rewriter (GSA-H62N) and limited testing indicates the
new drive is functional.

Brent

On Jan 29, 2008 6:27 PM, Brent Goodrick <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi K3b support:
>
> I'm using K3b version 1.0.3 to burn a 6.8GB iso onto a DVD-R DL disc.
> The burn fails within 8 seconds. The burn window shows the error. Here
> are the messages in that window:
>
>  Using growisofs 7.0 - Copyright bla bla bla
>  Starting disc write...
>  OPC failed. Please try writing speed 1x.
>  Writing speed: 5678 KB/s (4.10x)
>  Write error
>
> That statement of "Please try writing speed 1x" is a bit puzzling
> since there is no 1x selection in the burn dialog box (I verified that
> by a second attempt on the same disc).
>
> The debugging log contains the following:
>
>  System
>  -----------------------
>  K3b Version: 1.0.3
>
>  KDE Version: 3.5.8-7.fc7 Fedora
>  QT Version:  3.3.8
>  Kernel:      2.6.23.12-52.fc7
>  Devices
>  -----------------------
>  PLEXTOR DVDR   PX-740A 1.01 (/dev/sr0, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM,
> DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL] [DVD-ROM,
> DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump,
> DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R
> Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16,
> RAW/R96R, Restricted Overwrite, Layer Jump]
>
>  Burned media
>  -----------------------
>  DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential
>
>  Used versions
>  -----------------------
>  growisofs: 7.0
>
>  growisofs
>  -----------------------
>  Executing 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/sr0 obs=32k seek=0'
>  :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=11h/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error
>  /dev/sr0: "Current Write Speed" is 4.1x1352KBps.
>  :-[ WRITE@LBA=0h failed with SK=3h/ASC=0Ch/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error
>  :-( write failed: Input/output error
>
>  growisofs command:
>  -----------------------
>  /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray
> -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:3570944
> -dvd-compat -speed=4 -use-the-force-luke=bufsize:32m
>
> The package of media says:
>
>  8.5GB "Dual Layer" 4X
>
> Is this a problem with >2GB ISO's? Is it a problem with some
> underlying software that K3b expects to be able to handle DVD-R DL
> discs?  Is version 1.0.3 not up to the task and I must upgrade to
> 1.0.4?
>
> Thanks,
> Brent
>

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