billdotson
April 22nd, 2007, 04:11 AM
A couple days ago I just got a spindle of 25 Sony DVD+RW's so that I could burn the parts of my Windows backup image.
I was in Windows ( I use Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 in there). I had the parts of the image on a FAT32 shared partition and I then commenced the burning process with Roxio. The first DVD I put in there halfway through the burn it errored out and said "seek, sync, ATIP or mechanical positioning error" I was just like ok then I guess the disc is bad. Then I burned 3 more and they seemed to got fine and finish and all. Then I tried the 5th one I got the same error. I was using an LG super multi burner (model H22N) burner, firmware 1.01. I assumed the discs were bad so I put them aside. Then I went looking for that error on google I realized that it was either a media problem or my drive. I put a new DVD in and told Roxio to verify data after the burn was done.. and it failed.. said it could not access "file aaa" the first file. So I assumed the drive was bad due to that. Then I put the DVDs that failed in my other burners.. the NEC and the Lite-On (which is SATA). The burns went fine on those so I assumed that my issue lied with that LG burner. I think that is only the beginning of the problem..
I booted into Linux and tried burning a DVD with Brasero using the verify file data before and after options and the burn and everything went fine (or so I thought) but when it was done it showed the DVD as having 5.5GiB of max space with 3.1GB being used (the data I burned to it)
Then I tried burning another one and Brasero exited out randomly and I looked at the debugging information and it pretty much just said.. this is an unknown error.
I do not know if this is related, but if I try to blank a cd-rw with gnomebaker the drive just locks up and won't unmount until I reboot.
Anyway, after I tried Brasero I put in a DVD and tried it with K3B (version 0.12 from the edgy repositories). I told it to verify before and after but after it burned the verification failed (I am not using the LG at this point, I stopped using it after I stopped using Roxio) Then I tried another and it finally worked.
Then I tried another DVD and guess what.. that one didn't work.
I had started my download of Feisty last night so I booted into the LiveCD and tried the 1.0 version of K3b. When I try to format or blank anything in there it says it cannot mount the media. Sometimes it will format it but then it will say it cannot eject it after it is done.
I think there might be some issues w/ my fstab in Edgy AND Feisty because DVD burning in them seems like it returns a ridiculous amount of errors. I don't even know if Roxio is doing any good. In Ubuntu sometimes blank DVDs won't mount and if I try to force formatting them (not quick, full) it will finish in like 2 seconds and just say successful. Now I remember why I quit burning things a few years ago.. I could never get any of the stuff to work.
It seems especially bad in Ubuntu, like a problem communicating with ym drives or something.. anyway it is incredibly annoying. Maybe my fstab entires are all messed up for my drives. With the fesity livecd it sees them as scsi devices even though 2 of them are IDE and the other is SATA. Maybe I have to run the burning app as sudo, I do not know but I am getting tired of ruining freaking DVD+RWs, if I keep burning I might as well have just taken $30 and lit a flame to it.
This is so frustrating. Now when I am going into advanced settings to try and fix things I see all these different formats like ISO9660, Joilet, Rock Ridge UDF and all this other stuff I do not understand. I am so confused.. it seems like I will never get where I can do a burn and not have to go through an hour checking to see why it didn't burn or didn't burn correctly.
I was in Windows ( I use Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 in there). I had the parts of the image on a FAT32 shared partition and I then commenced the burning process with Roxio. The first DVD I put in there halfway through the burn it errored out and said "seek, sync, ATIP or mechanical positioning error" I was just like ok then I guess the disc is bad. Then I burned 3 more and they seemed to got fine and finish and all. Then I tried the 5th one I got the same error. I was using an LG super multi burner (model H22N) burner, firmware 1.01. I assumed the discs were bad so I put them aside. Then I went looking for that error on google I realized that it was either a media problem or my drive. I put a new DVD in and told Roxio to verify data after the burn was done.. and it failed.. said it could not access "file aaa" the first file. So I assumed the drive was bad due to that. Then I put the DVDs that failed in my other burners.. the NEC and the Lite-On (which is SATA). The burns went fine on those so I assumed that my issue lied with that LG burner. I think that is only the beginning of the problem..
I booted into Linux and tried burning a DVD with Brasero using the verify file data before and after options and the burn and everything went fine (or so I thought) but when it was done it showed the DVD as having 5.5GiB of max space with 3.1GB being used (the data I burned to it)
Then I tried burning another one and Brasero exited out randomly and I looked at the debugging information and it pretty much just said.. this is an unknown error.
I do not know if this is related, but if I try to blank a cd-rw with gnomebaker the drive just locks up and won't unmount until I reboot.
Anyway, after I tried Brasero I put in a DVD and tried it with K3B (version 0.12 from the edgy repositories). I told it to verify before and after but after it burned the verification failed (I am not using the LG at this point, I stopped using it after I stopped using Roxio) Then I tried another and it finally worked.
Then I tried another DVD and guess what.. that one didn't work.
I had started my download of Feisty last night so I booted into the LiveCD and tried the 1.0 version of K3b. When I try to format or blank anything in there it says it cannot mount the media. Sometimes it will format it but then it will say it cannot eject it after it is done.
I think there might be some issues w/ my fstab in Edgy AND Feisty because DVD burning in them seems like it returns a ridiculous amount of errors. I don't even know if Roxio is doing any good. In Ubuntu sometimes blank DVDs won't mount and if I try to force formatting them (not quick, full) it will finish in like 2 seconds and just say successful. Now I remember why I quit burning things a few years ago.. I could never get any of the stuff to work.
It seems especially bad in Ubuntu, like a problem communicating with ym drives or something.. anyway it is incredibly annoying. Maybe my fstab entires are all messed up for my drives. With the fesity livecd it sees them as scsi devices even though 2 of them are IDE and the other is SATA. Maybe I have to run the burning app as sudo, I do not know but I am getting tired of ruining freaking DVD+RWs, if I keep burning I might as well have just taken $30 and lit a flame to it.
This is so frustrating. Now when I am going into advanced settings to try and fix things I see all these different formats like ISO9660, Joilet, Rock Ridge UDF and all this other stuff I do not understand. I am so confused.. it seems like I will never get where I can do a burn and not have to go through an hour checking to see why it didn't burn or didn't burn correctly.