On Wednesday 15 November 2006 23:12, Ed Greshko wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> FC6 ssystem, up2date as of last night. >> >> I tried to burn a Zud iso to a dvd last night with k3b, and after a >> period of inactivity it reported a failure, and the disk was >> untouched. > >And the failure it reported was? > "Failed" >Are you using DVD+R or DVD-R media? The exact same dvd+rw disk that I had used for test media the night before, and a fresh dvd+r, both weren't touched. >Are you using "Auto" for the writing speed? Have you tried manually >selecting a slower speed? So far, auto has worked reasonably well here, and in some cases a slowdown is ignored and it admonishes the attempt to slow it down. But because it failed before it got to the 'writing at x speed' phase, I have NDI if it was going to burn the 4x+RW at 4x, or the 8x dvd+r at 8x. I got the idea it was a permislem, but thats just s SWAG. The 8x +r is still in the drive, so lets see if I can get a more meaningfull failure this time. For starters, I see k3b is still using md5sum, should it not be using sha1sum now? I just set the writing mode to overwrite, I hadn't noticed that option before (was auto), and the speed to 2x, but its still doing the md5sum. And it overrode my speed, resetting it to 6x just now. And it did take the 6x setting, showing a fifo buffer at 100% but no data on the device buffer, and it appears to be working. That disk was raw, why should I have had to take the write mode out of auto and select overwrite for a fresh disk thats not re-writable? Odd to say the least. Humm, when it reloaded to verify, the new media thing popped open, I hope that didn't screw up the verify. I closed it with the do nothing option button. It appears the verify is running at about 2x the burn speed. Ahh, no, it appears to have read the whole disk to a scratch file and is now checking that md5sum, so it was the disk read that was showing 13 to 15mb/sec in the gkrellm disk section, the md5sum will limp along at its usual snails pace. But, I got the "charge of the light brigade" at the end. A good burn. :) So thats another gotcha semi-solved. >> The night before, dvdstyler had no problems writing a short video. >> >> Both were being done as root. What are the checklist things that >> would have prevented k3b from doing what dvdstyler had no problems >> with? > >-- >Power corrupts. And atomic power corrupts atomically. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
