DVD ISO burning no longer reliable with F8 ?

[waterwingz]

I have a dual boot system - Fedora 8 and Fedora Core 6 (x86-64 versions). When booted using FC6 I can burns DVD ISO images just fine. But using F8 almost alway fails when buring the same images, using K3B, GnomeBaker or the built-in CD/DVD Creator application in the Places menu.

They all fail at the completion of the burning cycle, leaving a partially burned DVD coaster (based on looking at the rings on the bottom of the DVD).

Here's the debug file from K3B - shortened a bit by removing the repeated stuff as the DVD burns.

System
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K3b Version: 1.0.4

KDE Version: 3.5.8-7.fc8 Fedora
QT Version: 3.3.8
Kernel: 2.6.23.9-85.fc8
Devices
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_NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A 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-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/R96R, Restricted Overwrite]

Burned media
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DVD+R

Used versions
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growisofs: 7.0

growisofs
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Executing 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/sr0 obs=32k seek=0'
/dev/sr0: "Current Write Speed" is 4.1x1352KBps.
0/4681465856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
0/4681465856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
0/4681465856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
0/4681465856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
0/4681465856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
1671168/4681465856 ( 0.0%) @0.4x, remaining 1026:46 RBU 100.0% UBU 1.9%
12976128/4681465856 ( 0.3%) @2.4x, remaining 149:54 RBU 100.0% UBU 94.4%
32047104/4681465856 ( 0.7%) @4.1x, remaining 70:07 RBU 100.0% UBU 94.4%
51150848/4681465856 ( 1.1%) @4.1x, remaining 48:16 RBU 100.0% UBU 94.4%

<snip>

3616047104/4681465856 (77.2%) @0.0x, remaining 3:33 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0%
3616047104/4681465856 (77.2%) @0.0x, remaining 3:34 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0%
:-[ WRITE@LBA=1af110h failed with SK=0h/ASC=00h/ACQ=02h]: Input/output error
:-( write failed: Input/output error
/dev/sr0: flushing cache
/dev/sr0: closing track
/dev/sr0: closing disc

growisofs command:
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/usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:2285872 -dvd-compat -speed=4 -use-the-force-luke=bufsize:32m


Haven't found anything specific on this using Google, but I assume its not my hardware that has failed but maybe a new compatability issue between my hardware and a software change in the underlying code in F8 ?

Tony

[RJFUatHOME]

I only use the built in Gnome burning features and I usually also get an error at the end of the burn process, but the result isn't a coaster and everything seems to function normally. It did this in fc6 often, not too sure about version 7 however.

[pianoplayer]

I haven't tried it from either K3b or gnomebaker, but I have burned them successfully from a command line.

Starting with F7, the command lines for creating iso files and burning have changed. There are many options for these commands but the following ones have worked for me. To create an ISO image of all the files in a diredtory:

genisoimage -r -v -o [yourchoiceofname].iso [yourdirectory}

To create a DVD of the ISO image:


sudo wodim -v -dao -dev='/dev/scd0' -driveropts=burnfree [yourchoiceofname.iso]

Running as root is recommended; I have never needed to do so to burn CDs, but my first attempt to burn a DVD was not successful. (The above command assumes that you have set up sudo privileges for yourself.) The -driveropts option was recommended in an error message from a failed burn; it worked, but I don't understand why.

[waterwingz]

I've had the built-in burning feature get to the end too - sometimes with an error and sometimes not. When it does have an error, the disk is sometimes usable if its video - the error might be occurring far enough into the DVD that I never get that far on playback ?

Still, its curious that everything is good for me with FC6 but not F8.

[hellork]

Same troubles with k3b on f8 here. I have been using brasero and growisofs for my CD and DVD burning needs.

[waterwingz]

I just burned a standard CD-R with an 500M ISO file successfully so not everything is broken. Seems to just be a DVD problem.

[waterwingz]

Two month (and may YUM updates) later, I'm now burning DVD's just fine with F8. I think I saw some updates to DVD type packages go by so it appears all is good again.


Tony