Re: dvd writing problem

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 1 May 2008 11:35:38 -0400 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings all;
> 
> I'm going to describe the problem, and let you tell me where to report it.

linux-ide

> System is Biostart MB, XP-2800 cpu, gig of ram.
> 
> 1. burn dvd image using k3b, with write verify turned on.
> 
> 2. when disk is ejected at end of a successful burn, then pulled back in, a 
> read error is reported long before the drive has recognized the disk, the 
> disk is ejected again and k3b bails out of the verify phase.  This does not 
> occur for a cd-r.
> 
> 3. manually close drive with the disc still in the tray.
> 
> 4. About 40 secs later, at about the time the drive would have accepted the 
> disc as a valid disc, the system is frozen solidly, no drive leds on and the 
> clock in the corner of the screen is stopped.  I have let it sit that way for 
> as long as 2 minutes before tapping the hardware reset button.
> 
> 5. Eject the disc while its posting and reboot, to either 2.6.24.5 or 2.6.25, 
> both do exactly the same actions.
> 
> 6. Once system is up again, re-insert disc, wait for drive to accept it, then 
> do a verify by hand, disc is good, it can be mounted and read just fine.
> 
> 7. disc is a +RW disc, so it should be re-writable.  Pick a different .iso and 
> start k3b again using it.  K3b goes through the motions, but 2 or 3 seconds 
> after the real write starts with perhaps 30 megabytes *supposedly* written, 
> k3b gets a write error and the burn bails out, ejecting the disc as it does. 
> 
> 8. insert disc and loop this sequence back to #3 above until tired of 
> rebooting cuz the box is frozen.  Once rebooted, and the disc inspected, it 
> is obvious the second write never touched the disc as the first write is 
> still there and passes the sh1sum or md5sum test correctly.
> 
> Sebastian Truex and I have been discussing this for a while now, and I have 
> even replaced the writer drive, a LITEON that I started with, with an HP, 
> even faster drive, without changing a thing above.  It is 100% repeatable.
> 
> Where do I file the bug report?  There are no interesting entries in the 
> messages log, no oops, nothing.

It's unclear whether that drive is attached via stat, pata, ide, scsi or
whatever.  The dmesg output would clear that up.

Thanks.