On 6/19/05, Bill Witherspoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Not strictly speaking a Gentoo problem, but I'm completely flumoxed on > this one so any help would be greatly appreciated. > > I've purchased a Lite-On SOHW-1673s DVD burner and am having a heck of > time getting anything burnt ;-). My system sees the drive fine as hdc, > and dvd+rw-media returns the correct output (below). However k3b and > subsequently growisofs all return the same error: > > localhost myth # growisofs -Z /dev/hdc dvdrw/ > Executing 'mkisofs dvdrw/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' > /dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 3.3x1385KBps. > :-( unable to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Input/output error > :-( write failed: Input/output error > > The drive spins up and down 3 times before the error message appears. I > have done some googling, and have already turned off scsi-emulation. > > It appears to me that the drive is read-only? > > Any thoughts? My dvd+rw-mediainfo is below. > TIA, > Bill
Bill, If you don't get an answer fairly quickly then I'd suggest taking this info to the k3b list. Sebastian is usually pretty responsive to drive specific hardware problems. Good luck, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
