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slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

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computer locks up burning .isos

The "estimated time" starts ramping up to 250+ minutes, then when it maxes out and starts "burning" (~2-6 kb/s it says), it eventually just locks everything up.

I tried burning a regular disk, and that seemed to work -- an avi to a RW disc after blanking the disc. I thought the lockup was because I first used a RW disc for the iso by accident, but it's also doing it with cd-r discs.

dmesg seems to say it's in PIO mode, but then it also says udma2 (shouldn't that be higher?). so I don't know what mode it's really in: :?:

$ dmesg |grep hdc
hdc: LITE-ON LTR-40125S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
hdc: UDMA/33 mode selected
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1984kB Cache

here's hdparm -- should the buffer value be 0?

# hdparm -i /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:

 Model=LITE-ON LTR-40125S, FwRev=ZS0J, SerialNo=
 Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic }
 RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0
 (maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0
 IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:227,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 
 AdvancedPM=no

 * signifies the current active mode

This just started recently - I burned an iso I think about a week ago, maybe two weeks. this was with brasero. with nero linux, a dialog box comes up saying it's not the right kind of disc, it needs to be a cd-r or rw disc, and then it tells me that the kind of disc in the drive IS a cd-r disc. :roll:

maybe the iso is bad? it's the only one I tried, I don't really want to try another one quite yet because it locks up the system so bad I have to press reset. or else maybe the drive is dying (it's a few years old - many burns!)? or I hope just a misconfiguration or bug somewhere. ?

slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: computer locks up burning .isos

some kind of problem with mk/growisofs maybe? does anyone know how I could test that, preferably without locking up my system again?

slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: computer locks up burning .isos

someone suggested I add ide=nodma to the boot parameters, but that didn't work. I can burn an iso on my arch laptop, but the desktop is still locking up. unless the drive is dying, it must be a misconfiguration somewhere. it burns non-isos fine.

>> edit: I just burned an iso from the command line and it worked. could there some problem with both brasero and nero? i haven't tested k3b yet, i guess that's the next step.

Last edited by slackhack (2008-08-23 14:59:59)

slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: computer locks up burning .isos

okay strange. K3B burns the iso, but brasero locks up, and nerolinux just keeps wanting to blank the CD-RW over and over. when it's a CD-R, nero keeps saying it's the wrong kind of disc. so it must be some buggy problems with nerolinux and brasero.

PJGrefhorst

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Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 6

Re: computer locks up burning .isos

I have exactly the same problem... It would be so nice if KDE would be as stable as GNOME and if GNOME would have good alternatives for KDE software :S