K3B burns Memorex DVD's but not Maxell???

[Craig White]

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