DVD burning: POWER CALIBRATION AREA ERROR

[Jonathan Métillon]

Hi,

I'm trying to burn a DVD+R (Verbatim media) with a Sony Vaio VGN-TX3XP (European equivalent to US TX610) on Ubuntu 9.10. The burner is a Matshita UJ-832D.

It used to burn very well on Ubuntu. But now I'm having the same issue described in the thread Power calibration Error?

I checked the firmware version running DISCInfo 1.7.0 BETA on wine. It says 1.61 and I can't find any newer version from Google and Sony Vaio support websites.

lshw outputs:

                description: DVD writer
                product: UJ-832D
                vendor: MATSHITA
                physical id: 0.1.0
                bus info: scsi@0:0.1.0
                logical name: /dev/cdrom
                logical name: /dev/cdrw
                logical name: /dev/dvd
                logical name: /dev/dvdrw
                logical name: /dev/scd0
                logical name: /dev/sr0
                version: 1.61
                capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
                configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc

Brasero outputs:

BraseroGrowisofs stderr: :-[ WRITE@LBA=300h failed with SK=3h/POWER CALIBRATION AREA ERROR]: Input/output error
BraseroGrowisofs stdout:     1572864/4699979776 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 2140:48 RBU  96.8% UBU 100.0%
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_set_current_action
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: :-( write failed: Input/output error
BraseroGrowisofs stdout:     1572864/4699979776 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 2290:09 RBU  96.8% UBU 100.0%
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_set_current_action
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: /dev/sr0: flushing cache
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_set_current_action
BraseroGrowisofs stdout:     1572864/4699979776 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 2439:31 RBU  96.8% UBU 100.0%
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_set_current_action
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: /dev/sr0: closing track
BraseroGrowisofs stdout:     1572864/4699979776 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 2638:39 RBU  96.8% UBU 100.0%
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_set_current_action
BraseroGrowisofs stdout:     1572864/4699979776 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 2788:01 RBU  96.8% UBU 100.0%
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_set_current_action
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: :-[ CLOSE TRACK failed with SK=3h/POWER CALIBRATION AREA ERROR]: Input/output error
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: /dev/sr0: closing disc
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: :-[ CLOSE DISC failed with SK=3h/POWER CALIBRATION AREA ERROR]: Input/output error
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: HUP
BraseroGrowisofs stdout: HUP
BraseroGrowisofs process finished with status 5
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_error
BraseroGrowisofs finished with an error
BraseroGrowisofs asked to stop because of an error
    error        = 0
    message    = "no message"
BraseroGrowisofs stopping
BraseroGrowisofs got killed
Session error : unknown (brasero_burn_record brasero-burn.c:2811)

GnomeBaker outputs:

/dev/sr0: "Current Write Speed" is 4.1x1352KBps.
:-[ WRITE@LBA=0h failed with SK=3h/POWER CALIBRATION AREA ERROR]: Input/output error
:-( write failed: Input/output error

Any idea how to fix that... without buying a new burner?

(Will buy a cleaning kit soon.)