problem with DVD burning

Jacek Poplawski · 2010-01-27 09:56:50

I was trying to burn DVD with GUI it failed multiple times, so I tried with growisofs, but problem is the same:

:-[ WRITE@LBA=10h failed with SK=5h/INVALID ADDRESS FOR WRITE]: Invalid argument

if I try again it shows

:-[ WRITE@LBA=0h failed with SK=5h/WRITE PROTECTED]: Input/output error

so this process just destroys my DVDs

Do you know what may be wrong? I use same DVD type as before, same burner, same software (I was able to burn one, then it stopped to work). I tried even reboot and power off, nothing seems to work.

akephalos · 2010-05-30 22:21:59

I'm having a similar problem, I didn't bun DVDs for some time just to see that now I can't anymore...
My message is:

Executing 'mkisofs -r -J /media/extern2/backup-2010.05.30/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/sr0 obs=32k seek=0'
I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
0.25% done, estimate finish Mon May 31 01:16:31 2010
0.49% done, estimate finish Mon May 31 01:16:31 2010
0.74% done, estimate finish Mon May 31 01:18:46 2010
/dev/sr0: "Current Write Speed" is 8.2x1352KBps.
:-[ WRITE@LBA=0h failed with SK=3h/POWER CALIBRATION AREA ERROR]: Input/output error
:-( write failed: Input/output error

fourreux · 2010-06-08 10:59:42

I got the same errors for a while. and yesterday I bought a new dvd-writer ... and guess what ... everything works fine now!

So this might be a hardware problem. I previously got a sony optiarc that did a good job until some months ago. once in a while it was still burning, so I was thinking it would be something else.

But this might just be the thing with hardware failure: it works less and less ...

I'll recommend Plextor for now. i got a very cheap px880sa now.

akephalos · 2010-06-08 13:51:56

fourreux wrote:

I got the same errors for a while. and yesterday I bought a new dvd-writer ... and guess what ... everything works fine now!

Yes, I read that it's considered that this may be caused by the incompatibility between media and optical device as well. One the other hand, in my case, the same device and media I used previously to burn DVDs and worked (less than one-year old hardware and media), now it fails every time and the device was not used since then.
Works for CD's, though.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

zenlord · 2010-06-10 07:46:51

Have you tried installing cdrtools (in AUR) instead of cdrkit?

It has helped me solve my 'burning issues'...

akephalos · 2010-06-10 17:22:42

zenlord wrote:

Have you tried installing cdrtools (in AUR) instead of cdrkit?

I did. It didn't work as well, I don't remember whether it was the same error or other, but I'll try again.

akephalos · 2010-06-21 18:59:35

I though that after some updates - glibc, etc - maybe this problem vanishes. And yes, it did. I just burned one of those DVDs with xfburn (that uses the common back-ends) which used to fail and now it works .

It would be interesting to hear from the people who had this problem but didn't change the burner yet whether it works now or not - with similar media as previously.

zenlord · 2010-06-22 11:54:27

It is always possible that you upgraded while several packages were being uploaded, leading to version mismatches on your system...

If you have no error logs beyond the one you posted in your initial post, debugging this will be almost impossible.

ConnorBehan · 2011-08-02 04:11:50

My $0.02 is that growisofs is problematic for me too. At first I thought a kernel or udev issue made DVD burning impossible when growisofs and xfburn both failed on a DVD-R. However, upon checking the past DVDs I had burned, I saw that they were all DVD+R so I actually had no proof that my drive was even capable of burning a DVD-R. I inserted a DVD+R and was able to use xfburn. Growisofs still failed but not in a way that rendered the disc useless.

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#1 2010-01-27 09:56:50

problem with DVD burning

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Re: problem with DVD burning

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