On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 08:33:26PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I've been having problems burning DVDs using K3B recently. I know I used to > do > this, not too long ago, maybe 2-3 months.. > Now I'm getting errors, and K3B says it burns the DVD, then ejects it, but it > is empty. Or it stops about 30% of the way and errors out. I've tried slowing > down the burn rate, no luck. I have no clue what to do. I even tried running > K3B from a root terminal. When I run k3b to create a video DVD here is the > console output:
[snip] > Remaining size: 510:46:45 (LBA 2298495) (4707317760 Bytes) > Used Size: 00:00:01 (LBA 1) (2048 Bytes) > (K3bDevice::Device) /dev/scd0: GET PERFORMANCE dataLen = 8 > (K3bDevice::Device) /dev/scd0: GET PERFORMANCE reports bogus dataLen: 8 > (K3bDevice::Device) /dev/scd0: Number of supported write speeds via 2A: 4 > (K3bDevice::Device) /dev/scd0 : 8468 KB/s > (K3bDevice::Device) /dev/scd0 : 7056 KB/s > (K3bDevice::Device) /dev/scd0 : 4234 KB/s > (K3bDevice::Device) /dev/scd0 : 2822 KB/s > (K3bDevice::ScsiCommand) failed: > command: READ (10) (28) > errorcode: 70 > sense key: NOT READY (2) > asc: 3a > ascq: 0 > (K3bDevice::Device) /dev/scd0: READ 10 failed! > (K3bDevice::ScsiCommand) failed: > command: READ (10) (28) > errorcode: 70 > sense key: NOT READY (2) > asc: 3a > ascq: 0 > (K3bDevice::Device) /dev/scd0: READ 10 failed! > ( did that sequence quite a few more times..) > > --------------------------------------- > it ejected the DVD, said success, yet the DVD is blank Have you changed/upgraded any hardware, in particular, added any HDs? Does /var/log/syslog show anything interesting? Does it work from the command-line, using videotrans or tovid or ...? If it is a CD/DVD/RW drive, can you rip/burn a cd? Does it play a known good DVD? -- Chris. ====== I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -- Stephen F Roberts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org