I tried to add this as a comment to the blog on the last post prior to the 1.4 release post but it keeps telling me an unknown field is required. All visible fields are filled in and none highlighted. Anyway, re the new optical media burning tools...
Was this incorporated into 1.4? I am trying to burn a data Blu-Ray in 1.4 and I get the same error as I got with the old tools for years.
"Fatal error during recording: Input/Output error" error when k3b gets to 99% done burning a BD-R
Poking around I see mkisofs, cdrecord, and readcd (all 3.0) are in both /usr/bin and /opt/schily/bin. What's the difference? What do I need to do to burn a Blu-Ray disk?
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I suppose there is not much you can do about this but when I clicked on Formatting Help it provided lots of help -- and erased the message I needed help on!-(
Anyway, just to see what happened, I pointed K3b to /opt. And based on online advice, I changed multisession from Automaticc to (forced) No Multisession. I was able to burn and verify a Blu-Ray disk with K3b -- for the first time in ANY distro! (I've been trying for a couple years.)
Later I found that the files in /usr... are just links to the files in /opt... so it must have been forcing no multisession that did the trick. Plus your adding the new burning tools to 1.4. Thanks!
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Hi Robert, welcome to the forums. I know about the formatting help thing, I've lost a couple of long posts in the past. It's really annoying. I kicked myself, because I usually copy my posts to the clipboard before doing anything that I can't trust the browser to not lose my input. There is another formatting help button that doesn't lose your post. The one next to preview button brings up a popup.
Anyway, about your Blueray problems. I'm afraid I can't be of too much help because I've never owned a bluray player or writer. I have used the cdrtools for CD and DVD, they work well so far.
I remember getting errors from K3B (between 97% and 99% complete) on some linux distros in the past. In most cases the burnt media actually worked. So it can be ignored, but it's very unsettling. But when I used the same image, media, PC and OS installation, the command line tools worked flawlessly. Perhaps that why I almost exclusively use the command line tools these days, instead of K3B. The command I use mostly is "cdrecord". So it could be a K3B issue, the same one I used to get. Thing is, K3B uses cdrecord in the background. But there may be a glitch in their interaction.
Please try using the command line tool cdrecord. I usually use the command:
cdrecord-dao-vDownloads/someimage.iso
But that's for ISO images. You could look into using mkisofs if you're burning regular files.
The reason they appear in 2 places is that the original "Cdrecord" likes to install to /opt/schilly. The commands in /usr/bin are just symbolic links to the ones in /opt/schilly, e.g:
I tried to add this as a comment to the blog on the last post prior to the 1.4 release post but it keeps telling me an unknown field is required. All visible fields are filled in and none highlighted. Anyway, re the new optical media burning tools...
Was this incorporated into 1.4? I am trying to burn a data Blu-Ray in 1.4 and I get the same error as I got with the old tools for years.
"Fatal error during recording: Input/Output error" error when k3b gets to 99% done burning a BD-R
Poking around I see mkisofs, cdrecord, and readcd (all 3.0) are in both /usr/bin and /opt/schily/bin. What's the difference? What do I need to do to burn a Blu-Ray disk?
I suppose there is not much you can do about this but when I clicked on Formatting Help it provided lots of help -- and erased the message I needed help on!-(
Anyway, just to see what happened, I pointed K3b to /opt. And based on online advice, I changed multisession from Automaticc to (forced) No Multisession. I was able to burn and verify a Blu-Ray disk with K3b -- for the first time in ANY distro! (I've been trying for a couple years.)
Later I found that the files in /usr... are just links to the files in /opt... so it must have been forcing no multisession that did the trick. Plus your adding the new burning tools to 1.4. Thanks!
Hi Robert, welcome to the forums. I know about the formatting help thing, I've lost a couple of long posts in the past. It's really annoying. I kicked myself, because I usually copy my posts to the clipboard before doing anything that I can't trust the browser to not lose my input. There is another formatting help button that doesn't lose your post. The one next to preview button brings up a popup.
Anyway, about your Blueray problems. I'm afraid I can't be of too much help because I've never owned a bluray player or writer. I have used the cdrtools for CD and DVD, they work well so far.
I remember getting errors from K3B (between 97% and 99% complete) on some linux distros in the past. In most cases the burnt media actually worked. So it can be ignored, but it's very unsettling. But when I used the same image, media, PC and OS installation, the command line tools worked flawlessly. Perhaps that why I almost exclusively use the command line tools these days, instead of K3B. The command I use mostly is "cdrecord". So it could be a K3B issue, the same one I used to get. Thing is, K3B uses cdrecord in the background. But there may be a glitch in their interaction.
Please try using the command line tool cdrecord. I usually use the command:
But that's for ISO images. You could look into using mkisofs if you're burning regular files.
The reason they appear in 2 places is that the original "Cdrecord" likes to install to /opt/schilly. The commands in /usr/bin are just symbolic links to the ones in /opt/schilly, e.g:
Last edit: Euan Thoms 2014-01-24