Trouble burning DVD+R (DVD plus R)

kvance · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 10

I recently got a new Pioneer 110D, which has been working fine burning data to DVD minus R discs. I just bought a big stack of Verbatim DVD plus R's, and I can't make them work. K3B burns the disc without complaint, but the result is unmountable:

Xaid · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:57 am Post subject:

Hi kvance,

I have a Pioneer DVR 109 and I heard the same problems when burning DVD+R , some say its buggy firmware from Pioneer.
I use growisofs (part of the dvd+rw-tools package) to burn DVDs, and there is a patch to fix this issue, you can search the forum for more information. And check this link for a possible fix:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95357

Good luck.

kvance · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 10

Thanks for the link, Xaid. Sadly, it did not burn a useful DVD. It was actually mountable this time, but was truncated at 77%. Interesting error messages:

Xaid · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:16 am Post subject:

I'm not really sure if its incompatibility with growisofs and your burner. Whats the version of the kernel that you are currently running? someone mentioned a problem that can cause this in kernel versions < 2.6.11.6, also, are you running the latest firmware for your burner? did you check Pioneer's website to see if the media that you has is supported with no problems?

I looked on the forum and some people suggested turning on "packet writing" in the kernel but I don't think it'll do anything in your case.
Try posting a follow up on that bug, maybe someone there has a better idea.

Someone else reported a similar problem here:
link

trey85stang · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 38 Location: Ft. Worth, TX

if you use growisofs try adding the -dvd-compat flag. It could help you out!
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unarana · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:57 pm Post subject:

I've the same problem, i've tried some different kernels (2.6.12-gentoo-r10 and 2.6.13-ck6) and firmwares (1.17 and 1.22), emerged dvd+rw-tools with USE=-dvd-compat (but there 's any dvd-compat flag in dvd+rw-tools) and used growisofs with -dvd-compat command

No problem using NeroLinux

:?:

Ciao

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kvance · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 10

mike456 · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 17

I got this problem too.

Drive: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109
Firmware: 1.50
UDMA 2
kernel 2.6.12 gentoo-sources; yada yada...

Trouble burning DVD+R media (TDK). I've tried all sorts of speeds (2X,4X) seems to produce coasters consistently. Complains occasionally during buring about LBA errors -- sometimes.

Symptoms of finished DVD+Rs are that they cannot be mounted. Mount gives standard "bad superblock..." error, dmesg sayz:

unarana · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:58 am Post subject:

surfmasta · n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 36

And i got this problem too.
But i've got a BenQ DW1620.
I'm always burning with k3b, but i dont burned for a long time, so i dont recognized that maybe some updates breakes something. Before my gentoo i had a debian unstable/experimental and this is the last time i remember i had burn some dvds. ok, my problem is, i can burn dvd+rw, but no dvd+r. k3b stucks on 100%, so i have to cancel it. here is the debug output:

crime_minister

nix_nix · n00b Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Calgary, AB

I too have this problem with my DVR-109 firmware 1.58 and vanilla kernel 2.6.13.2 . That is,

9.39% done, estimate finish Wed Oct 19 03:13:38 2005
9.64% done, estimate finish Wed Oct 19 03:13:30 2005
9.90% done, estimate finish Wed Oct 19 03:13:22 2005
:-? the LUN appears to be stuck writing LBA=30310h, retry in 70ms
:-? the LUN appears to be stuck writing LBA=30800h, retry in 0ms
:-[ WRITE@LBA=80030800h failed with SK=2h/ASC=04h/ACQ=08h]: Resource temporarily unavailable
builtin_dd: 198656*2KB out @ average 3.8x1385KBps
:-( write failed: Resource temporarily unavailable

... and then it closes the session, despite being only 9.90% done.

The best I've been able to accomplish with this drive was the following sequence of steps:

1. Insert blank DVD
2. growisofs ... completes successfully
3. Eject completely readable and useful DVD.
4. hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd # (turn DMA back on for my DVD drive)

5. Insert blank DVD
6. growisofs ... completes successfully
7. Eject completely readable and useful DVD.
8. hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd # (turn DMA back on for my DVD drive)

9. Insert blank DVD
A. growisofs ... completes successfully
B. Eject completely readable and useful DVD.
C. hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd # (turn DMA back on for my DVD drive)

D. Insert blank DVD
E. growisofs ... fails as described above -> brand new coaster
F. hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd # (turn DMA back on for my DVD drive)

10. Insert blank DVD
11. growisofs ... fails as described above -> brand new coaster
12. hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd # (turn DMA back on for my DVD drive)

So, I guess my DVD player works 60% of the time, as long as you don't try to burn more than 5 DVDs at a time :o)

Perhaps what we need is a patch similar to the one fixing the "close session" bug. In essence, growisofs should be a little more patient in the face of "Resource temporarily unavailable" errors.

unarana · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 8:27 am Post subject:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=2811343#2811343

it means UP :lol:

Ciao

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nix_nix · n00b Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Calgary, AB