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Jay I.

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Registered: 2009-09-19

Posts: 3

growisofs sleeps forever

hi guys. i've got a strange problem with burning a dvd. the media is i-tech dvd-rw, the drive is:

$ dmesg | grep "DVD"
ata2.00: ATAPI: SlimtypeDVD A DS8A4S, JL61, max UDMA/100, ATAPI AN
scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            Slimtype DVD A DS8A4S     JL61 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5

and the command is:

$ growisofs -Z /dev/cdrw=./context/downloads/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso
WARNING: /dev/cdrw already carries isofs!
About to execute 'builtin_dd if=./context/downloads/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/cdrw obs=32k seek=0'

i tried to blank the disk but nothing changed except the warning. the command simply hangs and the drive doesn't even spin up. wtf can be wrong?

p.s. uname -rm gives 2.6.33-ARCH x86_64

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: growisofs sleeps forever

Are you running this as root?

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Jay I.

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Registered: 2009-09-19

Posts: 3

Re: growisofs sleeps forever

no. as a normal user.

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: growisofs sleeps forever

Try as root. If that works, it's a permission problem.

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Jay I.

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Registered: 2009-09-19

Posts: 3

Re: growisofs sleeps forever

actually i tried the both before starting the thread ;) the permissions seem to be ok, i'm a member of 'optical' group. and i can't show you any logs caz they don't contain any useful messages. i'm curious about the issue because i used to burn both cds and dvds just a month ago and everything worked fine. i'll try to install an older version tomorrow.

Last edited by Jay I. (2010-05-01 20:29:02)