Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is a weird one: burning CDs and DVDs in my Ultra 20 is a
> crapshoot. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. The
> Ultra 20 is using the DVD-RW drive that Sun shipped with it,
> and I'm using the latest BIOS and b42a of Nevada. The media
> I'm trying to burn is brand new Maxell branded DVD-Rs and CD-Rs,
> and they all seem to be in excellent physical condition.
>
> So the question is: is this a known problem, and are there any
> workarounds? I'm using cdrw (no offense to Joerg, but I find
> "cdrw -i foo.iso" much easier to type than cdrecord with a long
> list of options), and as I say this is an intermittent problem.
I have been told by one of the maintainers that there is a problem.
I believe that they did stop trying to fix this after cdrecord
has been included into Solaris.
> Here are the results from two successive attempts:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] time cdrw -i sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd.iso
> Looking for CD devices...
> Initializing device...done.
> Preparing to write DVD
> Writing track 1...done.
> Finalizing (Can take several minutes)...done.
>
> real 7m18.80s
> user 0m0.41s
> sys 0m7.63s
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] time cdrw -i sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd.iso
> Looking for CD devices...
> Initializing device...done.
> Preparing to write DVD
> Writing track 1...failed.
> done.
If you use cdrecord, you will never get such a simple error message.
Instead you will see the exact reason for the failure.
I am sorry, but it is impossible to help if the program does not tell where the
problem was.
Jörg
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