Re: k3b won't burn, nerolinux will

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

Justin Piszcz wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon December 29 2008, you wrote:
>>>> Please install dvd+rw-tools as shown above (apt-get install it)
>>>>
>>> already installed:
>>> ~$ dpkg --list|grep dvd+rw
>>> ii  dvd+rw-tools                                            7.1-3
>>> DVD+-RW/R tools
>>>
>>>
>>>> Then:
>>>>
>>>> Burn a DVD using the command:
>>>> growisofs -Z /dev/hda=FC-6-i386-DVD.iso
>>> how about:
>>> growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 k3b.project.iso (existing file)
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Or a CD:
>>>> cdrecord dev=/dev/scd0 -eject -v -dao driveropts=burnfree speed=48 
>>>> -data
>>>> file.iso
>>>>
>>>> Then, please provide the output from that application/burn-run.  I
>>>> recommend you do this to isolate the problem.
>>> # growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 K3b.project.iso
>>> Executing 'genisoimage K3b.project.iso | builtin_dd of=/dev/scd0 obs=32k
>>> seek=0'
>>> I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale 
>>> settings)
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>>> /dev/scd0: "Current Write Speed" is 16.4x1352KBps.
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>>> :-[ WRITE@LBA=3c2d0h failed with SK=3h/ASC=80h/ACQ=04h]: Input/output 
>>> error
>>> :-( write failed: Input/output error
>>> /dev/scd0: flushing cache
>>> /dev/scd0: updating RMA
>>> /dev/scd0: closing session
>>
> 
>  CC'd linux-ide for ideas here.
> 
>  Also, they may ask you to try a burn with speed=1 to eliminate any weird
>  bottlenecks or bad media.

We don't have the full back story here.. The drive apparently returned 
an error code that's listed as vendor-specific in the MMC specs, so hard 
to say what it's trying to tell you.