[K3b-user] K3b does not and will not write to DVD's

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have an impossible dream to be able to write a data DVD of my various
picture files and movie files using K3b however, I've never been able
to do that.

I have SuSE 10.0 and a Sony DVD+RW writer and I have K3b 1.0.1
installed on my system and I've upgraded growisofs from 5.21 to 7.0.

All I get are error messages:
wrong medium type
media not formatted or unsupported

The media is Sony DVD+RW and I've tried Memorex DVD+R, also DVD-RW
(don't know the brand of that one).

K3b complains about the system's automounting but the message does
not help me any because I have no clue about editing the fstab file.
I like that the system automounts so that I don't have to mess with
trying to type mount commands.

The only thing that's ever worked for me is a CD-R. I have several
Gigabites to backup, I don't want to be buying tons of CD-R's for
doing that.

Question: Why can't k3b work despite the system automounting the
CD/DVD's?

Here is the output from the latest attempt:
System
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K3b Version: 1.0.1

KDE Version: 3.5.6 "release 64.1" 
QT Version:  3.3.8
Kernel:      2.6.13-15.15-smp
Devices
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RICOH CD-R/RW MP7040A 1.40 (/dev/hdd, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM] [Error]
[SAO,
TAO, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R]

SONY DVD+RW  DRU-120A 1.51 (/dev/hdc, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM,
DVD-ROM,
DVD+R, DVD+RW] [DVD-ROM, DVD+RW, DVD+R, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO,
TAO,
RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, RAW/R96R]
Burned media
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DVD+R

K3bIsoImager
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mkisofs print size result: 1714136 (3510550528 bytes)
Pipe throughput: 33674240 bytes read, 33669888 bytes written.

Used versions
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mkisofs: 2.1
growisofs: 7.0

growisofs
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Executing 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0'
/dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 2.5x1352KBps.
:-[ WRITE@LBA=0h failed with SK=2h/ASC=30h/ACQ=11h]: Wrong medium
type
:-( media is not formatted or unsupported.
:-( write failed: Wrong medium type

growisofs command:
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/usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdc=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray
-use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:1714136
-speed=2.4
-use-the-force-luke=bufsize:32m 

mkisofs
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1714136
INFO: UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
 Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
 use -input-charset to override.
Using DSC_22000.JPG;1 for  /DSC_22.JPG (dsc_22.jpg)
  0.03% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
  0.06% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
  0.09% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
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  0.90% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
  0.93% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007

mkisofs calculate size command:
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/usr/bin/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -print-size -quiet -volid K3b
data
project -volset  -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2005 SEBASTIAN
TRUEG
AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher  -preparer  -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1
-volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-username/k3bT4jHWb.tmp -rational-rock
-hide-list /tmp/kde-username/k3bFFMbKb.tmp -joliet -hide-joliet-list
/tmp/kde-username/k3b2TgQHa.tmp -no-cache-inodes
-full-iso9660-filenames
-iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-username/k3b13ubIb.tmp 

mkisofs command:
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/usr/bin/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -volid K3b data project -volset 
-appid
K3B THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2005 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM
-publisher  -preparer  -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1
-sort
/tmp/kde-username/k3b5pyNub.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list
/tmp/kde-username/k3bf9Jb8a.tmp -joliet -hide-joliet-list
/tmp/kde-username/k3bDbd6wb.tmp -no-cache-inodes
-full-iso9660-filenames
-iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-username/k3b7tDdxa.tmp 

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