Re: Can't burn Double Layer DVDs

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:26:14 -0500, Ken K staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
> Ken Tew wrote:
>> /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/disk4/DISK1.iso
>> -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -dvd-compat
>> -speed=4

>> /dev/hdd: splitting layers at 1856336 blocks
>> :-( unable to SEND DVD+R DOUBLE LAYER RECORDING INFORMATION:
>> Input/output :error
>>
>> The dvd burner is Mad Dog MD-16xDVD9A2. I'm using growisofs version
>> 5.21. The OS is Fedora Core 4.
>>
>> I can burn other media (including single layer DVD) just fine. Also,
>> I have used the DVD burner to correctly burn double layer DVDs under
>> windows.
> Are you using this package for recording? cdrecord-prodvd I believe
> it's required for DVD+R media.

Nope. The dvd+rw-tools package does DVD+R and DVD+RW media. Message-ID
1B4%d.5701376$f47.1038778@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is at least one report of
someone using k3b and growisofs to burn a dual-layer DVD+R. They may
have used the -overburn option. I'd try various things and report back,
but my DVD+RW is an older unit and only writes single-layer. There may
be a bug with growisofs, or (less likely) there may be a kernel problem.

You can get a fairly good handle on what growisofs is doing if you
strace that command given above and redirect stderr to strace.log. Like
so: "strace growisofs [options...] 2> strace.log". Then examine
strace.log in your favorite text editor and find out exactly which
write() or ioctl() is making growisofs unhappy. HTH,

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