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.
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what's in syslog / dmesg ? Anything of interest?
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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