* Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-06-19 06:27:04 -0700]: > 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
Thanks Mark, Your reply made me dig into the k3b archives, where I did see a couple of folks with the same issue, but alas no solutions posted. I've subscribed to their list and will post the problem there. Bill -- [email protected] mailing list
