Have just encountered the same problem myself. Manifested itself as growisofs ceasing to function following an upgrade from gutsy to hardy (I hadn't tried to write a DVD for some time after the upgrade). Same problem occurred with the intrepid and jaunty versions of growisofs. Using TDK DVD-R media on a Philips PBDV1640P revision B3.4.
After much messing around I discovered that omitting the -dvd-compat switch from the growisofs command line makes it work... so the command I ended up running was: $ growisofs -Z /dev/scd0=foo.iso Proof that it worked: $ md5sum foo.iso /dev/scd0 a7e18f22eb98f8d62caf1ffcb30c70dc foo.iso a7e18f22eb98f8d62caf1ffcb30c70dc /dev/scd0 dvdrecord didn't work either and I couldn't make it work; sample of output: $ dvdrecord -v driveropts=burnfree speed=1 dev=1,0,0 -dao foo.iso dvdrtools v0.3.1 Portions (C) 2002-2006 Ark Linux <b...@arklinux.org> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. Based on: Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�g Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '1,0,0' scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34 Using libscg version 'bero-0.5a' dvdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (bero-0.5a '@(#)scsitransp.c 1.81 01/04/20 Copyright 1988,1995,2000 J. Schilling'). Driveropts: 'burnfree' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'PHILIPS ' Identifikation : 'PBDV1640P ' Revision : 'B3.4' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO Drive buf size : 688128 = 672 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 4404 MB Total size: 5058 MB (501:08.05) = 2255104 sectors Lout start: 5058 MB (501:10/04) = 2255104 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP start of lead in: -150 (00:00/00) Disk type: unknown dye (reserved id code) Manuf. index: -1 Manufacturer: unknown (not in table) Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks remaining: 43392 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in write mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. trackno=0 BURN-Free is ON. dvdrecord: Turning BURN-Free on Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... Starting new track at sector: 2255270 Track 01: 0 of 4404 MB written.dvdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 22 69 A6 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 21 02 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x02 (logical block address out of range) [No matching qualifier] Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.006s timeout 200s write track data: error after 0 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 12.800s Fixating... Fixating time: 0.007s dvdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets. dvdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. Googling around the place reveals quite a lot of reports of this with the following characteristics in common: - It always strikes following an upgrade - CD recording still works, it's only DVDs that don't - Both growisofs and dvdrecord have problems, but different ones, and if a problem strikes one program it doesn't necessarily mean it'll strike the other - It affects users of all the main distributions - Upgrading the dvd tools never fixes it - Nor does anything else, and nobody seems to have a clue what's going on - Some people are misled into thinking it's a hardware fault as it disappears when they replace the drive with a totally different model. Nobody seems to have tried replacing the drive with a brand new example of the model they already have. I rather suspect that if they did they'd find it still didn't work. My suspicion is that the problem is actually in the kernel, not the tools, and affects particular models/revisions of DVD drive. Kernel here is 2.6.27-7-generic from ubuntu. -- Error while burning DVD-RWs: Input/output error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/15424 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs