Can't burn to DVD :(

Toe Knee · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 48 Location: Dundee

Hi,
I've installed Gentoo fairly recentley, but also had the same problem under mandrake. The problem is, I can't burn DVD's.

I've got a Sony - DWU18A drive, it's supposed to do RW for both + and - formats as well as RW for cd's. I can get it to burn cd's fine, using k3b. But, I have been unbale to burn any DVD's yet. I have only tried -DVD's, but that shouldn't be a problem as they are supported.
Whenever I try to burn a DVD I always get the following error message...

Toe Knee · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 48 Location: Dundee

I just thought I'd mention, I can format DVD's,
As there is some drive activity, I assumed maybe a little bit was written, so I formatted, and formatting works, but still no writing

Thanks again,
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Toe Knee

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 2:26 pm Post subject:

Toe Knee,

Have you tried the UDF writing patch?
Start here http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ If you have a 2.4 kernel, don't burn anything bigger then physical memory. Practice on +RWs
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Toe Knee · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 48 Location: Dundee

Thanks for the reply.

As noted eariler, I am using a 2.6.5 kernel.
I didn't know of the UDF patch, what does it do?
and, I'll go read that page now.

Thanks.
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Toe Knee

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 2:45 pm Post subject:

Toe Knee,

The patch provides UDF writing. The kernel tree only has UDF reading. You format your DVD+RW then use it like any other random access filesystem.

The bug in 2.4 kernels (I've not tested 2.6 yet) was to allow dirty buffers waiting to be written to take up all available memory. It was supposed to be fixed in 2.6 but its not been stable enough for me to test yet.
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

Toe Knee · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 48 Location: Dundee

Thanks for the info,

I only really wanted to use the DVD's like big cd's. Take them round to my mates houses and show them whatevers on them. I don't really need to use them like any other random access filesystem.

I'll try burning something small in a minute.

Thanks,
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Toe Knee

Toe Knee · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 48 Location: Dundee

Ok, so I tried burning 130mb of stuff, and then again with <1mb of stuff.

Same errors as above

Grrrr, this is starting to annoy me a bit now,

Thanks again.
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Toe Knee

chorche · n00b Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 1 Location: Czech rep.

Hi,
I have similar problem with SONY DRU-500A firmware 2.0c, after upgrading firmware to 2.0h the burning process went without error. According to vendor, this upgrade improves performance and reliability with new medias.
Try to check your vendor for firmware update.
I have kernel 2.6.5, k3b 0.11.9, cdrdao 1.1.8, cdrecord 2.1a27, dvd+rw-format 4.8, growisofs 5.17, mkisofs 2.1a27.
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Jimboberella · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 1:46 am Post subject:

From the author of DVD+RW tools listed at http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/tools/?M=A

jannis · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject:

I got the same prob with my Samsung TS-H552.
When I reboot I can burn 1 DVD without any problem but every try to burn a DVD without rebooting ends with this error

thepi · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 352 Location: Tokyo, Japan

The latter is a bug in <2.6.11.6 kernels and is not related to the other problem. Just update your kernel, or search for the patch on the Kernel Mailinglist.

pi~
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