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

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I had problems similar to that with k3b earlier.

When I booted into windows, I had the same problem.

I flash-updated my burner firmware and all was well.

If your burner is fairly old and the media is new, the media might  
not appear in the list of supported media in the burner.

On May 16, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Bobbie wrote:

> 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
> -----------------------
> 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
> -----------------------
> 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
> -----------------------
> DVD+R
>
> K3bIsoImager
> -----------------------
> mkisofs print size result: 1714136 (3510550528 bytes)
> Pipe throughput: 33674240 bytes read, 33669888 bytes written.
>
> Used versions
> -----------------------
> mkisofs: 2.1
> growisofs: 7.0
>
> growisofs
> -----------------------
> 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:
> -----------------------
> /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
> -----------------------
> 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
>   0.12% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.15% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.18% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.20% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.23% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.26% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.29% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.32% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.35% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.38% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.41% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.44% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.47% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.50% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.53% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.55% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.58% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.61% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.64% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.67% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.70% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.73% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.76% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.79% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.82% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.85% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   0.88% done, estimate finish Wed May 16 13:19:53 2007
>   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:
> -----------------------
> /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:
> -----------------------
> /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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