On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 20:25 -0400, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 22:53 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 12 March 2006 21:12, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 11:33 -0800, Paul Smith wrote: > > > > On 3/12/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to burn a data DVD with k3b (FC4), but keep getting the > > > > > error "growisofs did not exit cleanly". Any ideas, please? > > > > > > > > I had a recurrent similar problem in the past. After having wasted > > > > several disks, I decided to abandon k3b as a trustworthy tool for that > > > > purpose. There is some workarounds, the simplest one is maybe to make > > > > an iso file first and then use k3b to burn the iso file. > > > > > > I had that error also and then upgraded k3b to the latest version and > > > now I'm not getting that error anymore. > > > > > One other thing - on the last attempt I forgot to put the disk in before > > starting k3b's burn. It demanded a dual-layer disk. This drive doesn't > > handle dual-layer disks. Could it be that something put in to handle > > dual-layer has actually broken normal dvd-r handling? > > It's always asking me for a dual layer disk also and it still take > regular DVD+R though I've never been able to succesfully burn a DVD-R > even with 2 different burners, using k3b, growisofs, xcdroast and > cdrecord. And one burner was testing under WinXP and did succesfully > burn a DVD-R. I also tried with a Knoppix or Ubuntu live CD and got the > same results so it's not something that's related to Fedora specifically > but at a lower level. So I'm gonna be using DVD+Rs for now until I can > find a solution that will allow me to burn DVD-Rs. Strange; I use DVD-Rs all the time (on two different machines) and haven't had problems using them with growisofs or cdrecord. On the other hand, I usually find I need to manually fixate DVD+Rs before they're readable. Paul.
