Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 08:45 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Quick question: have any of you K3B users ever encountered problems with 
>> particular brands of DVD's?  I'm running Mandriva 2005 and I have a TDK 
>> DVDRW0404N burner.  My K3b version is 0.11.20 using KDE 3.3.2.  I am 
>> able to burn Memorex brand DVD-R blanks but not Maxell.  I tried 
>> uninstalling and reinstalling K3B via URPMI, but it didn't work.  After 
>> I click the "Burn" button, it brings up the "Writing Data DVD" window, 
>> and goes for 34 seconds until the "Started Writing" message.  It then 
>> fails with the following messages:
>> 	OPC failed.  Please try writing speed 1x.
>> 	Fatal error at startup: input/output error.
>> 	Unable to eject media.
>> The last error is particularly strange, because K3B has no trouble 
>> ejecting a CD-R, or a Memorex DVD-R.  I have tried, as it suggested, 
>> setting the write speed to 1X, but that doesn't make a difference.  I 
>> wonder if there's some magic setting that could fix the problem.  Does 
>> anybody have a suggestion as to what I should try?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vaughn
>>
>> P.S. Any suggestions to change my distro will be respectfully rejected. 
>>   :-) I'd consider upgrading, as opposed to reinstalling, Mandriva, but 
>> I haven't had great luck with this in the past.
> ----
> what's in syslog / dmesg ?  Anything of interest?
> 

Craig,
Thanks for your reply.  Yes, it's old.  I was hoping (perhaps in vain) 
that I could solve this with some kind of mode switch. Or maybe this 
drive is on its way out. I'm always afraid that upgrading will break my 
other stuff.  :-)

 From dmesg, I see these over and over again:
ATAPI device hdc:
   Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
   (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x30, ascq=0x02)
   The failed "Read Subchannel" packet command was:
   "42 02 40 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!

Same stuff in syslog.

Puzzling, because this is an empty DVD, it's not SUPPOSED to have any 
tracks it recognizes!  :-)

Vaughn

> It's probably unable to eject because a process still has a hold on the
> device.
> 
> as you apparently know, those are really old versions...
> 
> $ rpm -q kdebase
> kdebase-3.5.8-3.fc7
> 
> $ rpm -q k3b
> k3b-1.0.3-2.fc7
> 
> Caig
> 
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