Re: Can't burn Double Layer DVDs

Dances With Crows wrote:

> 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,
>


That's right... Thanks crow-meister! I knew there was a package that I
installed to make DVD+R work accurately. I found the dvd+rw-tools
installed on mine.


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