Re: DVD burning still have problems

[Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:06:54 +0100, Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk> wrote:
> hello, i followed the last thread, "unable to burn DVD", and there was a
> patch, which was said to work, but it does not.. (i am running
> 2.6.11-rc1-bk9)..
> 
> the problem started around 2.6.9 (or something like it), when i was only
> able to burn 1 dvd, then i had to restart before i could burn another
> (or every second dvd i burn would fail), the error i get is input/output
> error.. my burner is working perfect, since it works on windows, and on
> 2.6.9-rcSomething.
> 
> it is not a specific place in the burning process it fails, sometimes at
> 10%, and sometimes at 97%
> 
> burning normal cd's works perfectly
> 
> now on 2.6.10 and 2.6.11-later i cant burn dvd's at all, every time i
> try to burn one, it fails, i have tried different speeds and media, same
> thing, i got a Liteon sohw1213S dvd duallayer burner, allthough im not
> using duallayer media.
> 
> here is a log from a burning i just tried:
> /dev/hda: engaging DVD-R DAO upon user request...
> /dev/hda: reserving 2149200 blocks
> /dev/hda: "Current Write Speed" is 4.1x1385KBps.
>   0.02% done, estimate finish Tue Jan 25 13:20:53 2005
>   0.05% done, estimate finish Mon Jan 24 15:13:15 2005
> <snip>
>  83.66% done, estimate finish Sun Jan 23 16:50:47 2005
>  83.68% done, estimate finish Sun Jan 23 16:50:47 2005
>  83.71% done, estimate finish Sun Jan 23 16:50:46 2005
> :-[ WRITE@LBA=1b7460h failed with SK=3h/ASC=0Ch/ACQ=00h]: Input/output
> error
> :-( write failed: Input/output error
> /dev/hda: flushing cache
> 
> this is simply what happens :(
> i have tried with and without pktcdvd loaded, same result, i hope
> someone can help me

FWIW, I happen to experience the same with the latest
 FC3 kernel on my Samsung TS-H552 burner; that is,

1. CD burning works 100% of the time
2. DVD burning may fail with EIO (nothing in kernel logs)
3. retrying burning usually works

Yes, I resorted to only use DVD+RW media now since the
 ratio of coasters has made +R more expensive than +RW :(

Last night I had to insist quite a lot with my burner's eject
 button before it decided to open and let the disc out (this
 particular session after failing once at 61% with EIO would
 reliably fail at the initial write). After reloading the tray
 with the same disc, I successfully burned it.

NB - this happens with Memorex and Verbatim media,
 not with el-cheapo discs.

I'm available for eventually testing of the 2.6.11-xx kernels
 from kernel.org (another side-effect of moving from RH9
 plus kernel.org kernels to FC3 and its own kernel is that I
 no longer have a dead machine after the updatedb run,
 which would happen about twice a month on my 256MB
 RAM k7-800).

--alessandro
 
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