[NTLUG:Discuss] DVD writing problems.

[LEROY TENNISON]

I can't solve your problem but, since you are planning on upgrading anyway, maybe this will help.  I personally wouldn't recommend trying to fight the Suse 9.3/K3B problem if you're going to upgrade - life is too short.  I do know that K3B will burn DVDs, I have done so successfully on CentOS 4.5, I'm going to speculate that something about K3B and Suse 9.3 is the problem.  This may be an option:

Download a recent (not necessarily brand-new) version of a Live CD which has burning software - possibly Knoppix or CentOS 4.4 (DON'T try CentOS 5.x, I had all kinds of CD problems with it, I hear that the newest IDE subsystem isn't well baked yet) or SuSE 11.0.  The last is probably the best - if it doesn't work with your hardware then there's no need installing it.  I made this mistake with CentOS 5.1, tried variants (and wasted a lot of time) before giving up on the CD weirdness (Konqueror hung/crashed, KSCD would simply auto-pause playing CDs, Rhythmbox experienced significant delays but continued).  If Suse 11.0 doesn't work then try 10.3, I'm using it with pretty good success.

Boot the live CD, mount your source media, start K3B and see if you can burn what you need.

Once you have a backup of all your data (assuming the above worked) then install the later distribution.

--- On Sat, 9/6/08, Steve Baker <steve at sjbaker.org> wrote:
From: Steve Baker <steve at sjbaker.org>
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] DVD writing problems.
To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>
Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 9:20 PM

I'm planning to upgrade my main box from SuSE 9.3 to OpenSuSE 11.0, so I 
need to burn a DVD full of freshly downloaded goodies.  Sadly, my aging 
CD-Writer can't write DVD's - so I went out and bought a shiney new $40

Pioneer DVR-116D and a box of DVD-RW disks - which the drive claims to 
be able to write at 20x.  It claims to be able to write all of the 
combinations of -RW, -R, +RW, etc.

I'm using K3b for burning disks...been using it for years.

I can burn CD-ROMs with the new drive - no problem - so it's obviously 
connected up alright.  But K3b refuses to burn an iso-DVD.

It picks up the drive name OK - it recommended that I turn on IDE DMA 
for it - which I did - and it recommended that I remove the drive's 
entry in /etc/fstab - which I did.  I tried upgrading to the latest 
version of K3b - it doesn't make a difference.  It looks like K3d 
doesn't recognise that there is a disk in the tray - it keeps telling me 
to load a disk and no matter what I do with the drive's disk tray - K3d 
just doesn't seem to notice.

Seems weird that it can detect that a CD is in the drive but not a DVD.

At this point, I'm completely stuck.  I can't imagine how this could be

going wrong.  Help!

   -- Steve.


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