[plug] DVD burn question

[David Dartnall]

Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 20:52 +0800, David Dartnall wrote:
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>> Gavin Chester wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 16:42 +0800, David Dartnall wrote:
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> -snip-
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>>>> Any thoughts? Where have I gone wrong?
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>>> you don't say what burning app you're using, but in this case I think it
>>> may be irrelevant. You also don't indicate whether there was any error
>>> output, even if it completed okay. So i'm stabbing in the dark here:
>>>
>>> If you have one good dvd and/or the original image still, then try again
>>> with another disc. I have found (and had conformed by the k3b developer)
>>> that dvd burners are VERY fussy about media. I bought a spindle of
>>> cheapies once and had to throw out more than half as coasters :-( With
>>> good media (eg, verbatim, etc) I have near 100% success. HTH.
>>>
>>> Gavin  
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>> Thanks Gavin, I was using Feisty's 'Copy Disk" process - inserted DVD, 
>> Totem started to play, closed Totem and clicked on the Desktop icon of 
>> the DVD which brought up a menu offering a 'Copy Disk' option which I took.
>> There were no failure notifications, and after having checked that the 
>> first one worked, I carried on with the second. No dice so tried again 
>> without success (and again). So I installed K3b and tried with that a 
>> couple of times. I now have five coasters, all of which were flagged as 
>> correctly burnt and completed.
>> The medium is TDK.
>>
>> I'll buy some Verbatim & try again...
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> Summary: I would get good quality dvd-r media, reboot and try the disc
> copy process from scratch with k3b and you should have good results.
> BTW: maybe change your desktop behaviour so totem doesn't start
> automagically - it may be interfering with control of your drive - it
> certainly will be mounting your disc before you want. HTH.
>
> Gavin     
>   
Wow! you guys are getting well ahead of me on this score. Thank you Arie 
H Timothy W and Gavin C.

Progress update:

The source and destination media were DVD-R and I killed the automatic 
Totem start, rebooted, opened K3b and inserted the source disk when 
requested:

There was in fact some error detail from K3b:
    Writing image file to /tmp/kde-data/radio_city.iso
    Unmounting source medium
    Reading with sector size 2048
    Successfully read source DVD
    Writing DVD-R in incremental mode
    Using growisofs 7.0.1 - Copyright ....
    Starting disk write
    OPC failed Please try writing speed 1x  (I did, no change)
    Fatal error at startup, input output error
    Removed image file /tmp/kde=dartd/radio-city.iso

There was more from K3b debugging output:
    System
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K3b Version: 1.0
KDE Version: 3.5.6
QT Version:  3.3.7
Kernel:      2.6.20-16-generic
Devices
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PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-108 1.10 (/dev/scd0, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, 
DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL] [DVD-ROM, DVD-R 
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/R96P, 
SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R, Restricted Overwrite]

Burned media
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DVD-R Sequential
K3bDataTrackReader
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reading sectors 0 to 2286095 with sector size 2048. Length: 2286096 
sectors, 4681924608 bytes.
using buffer size of 64 blocks.
Read a total of 2286096 sectors (4681924608 bytes)

Used versions
growisofs: 7.0.1
growisofs
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Executing 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/scd0 obs=32k seek=0'
:-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error

growisofs command:
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/usr/bin/X11/growisofs -Z /dev/scd0=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray 
-use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:2286096 
-dvd-compat -speed=1 -use-the-force-luke=bufsize:32m 


I then tried Nero Express under XP which returned the error message:
    Power calibration error
    Burn process failed at 4x (5540KB/s)

Maybe a faulty DVD drive? Although it burned a test cd this morning...
NO IT DIDN'T, I've just tried to read it Nautilus indicates a blank disk.
Anyone want a some printable coasters?

Regards
Dave Dartnall