Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > > Okay, then, is your patch necessary when using this command: > > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0=image.iso > > with a DVD? > > No. I do not know about any growisofs flaws with DVD. As mentioned before: growisofs does not correctly follow the SCSI standard and

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > > However, your patch is for growisofs, which in Gentoo comes from > > app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools, so the proper place for such patch would be > > per http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ -- > > On that list there was support by Andy Polykov until shortly > after

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > > An account is required, running Gentoo is not. > > I understood it was for users who encounter bugs in Gentoo. > That would be Alex, the OP. > > As i stressed too much already, the growisofs bug should be > fixed in any case. > > If it is possible to let K3b use

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > I just made a simple test by renaming growisofs and then attemting to create > a > BD-RE disk (Re-recordables are nice, sine non-RW media don't grow in my > garden > ;-) > > Result: k3b complained that it cannot find growisofs and that it won't be > possible to cr

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Okay, then, is your patch necessary when using this command: > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0=image.iso > with a DVD? No. I do not know about any growisofs flaws with DVD. (Besides its -use-the-force-luke magic which is reserved for those who read growisofs.c additionally to its man pa

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 08:15:23PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > > However, your patch is for growisofs, which in Gentoo comes from > > app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools, so the proper place for such patch would be > > per http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ -- > > On that list there was supp

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > However, your patch is for growisofs, which in Gentoo comes from > app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools, so the proper place for such patch would be > per http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ -- On that list there was support by Andy Polykov until shortly after the bug in question was reported. A fi

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 07:03:15PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > > An account is required, running Gentoo is not. > > I understood it was for users who encounter bugs in Gentoo. > That would be Alex, the OP. My reply was to you, Thomas, rather than the OP, because you wrote: "I wrote a

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > An account is required, running Gentoo is not. I understood it was for users who encounter bugs in Gentoo. That would be Alex, the OP. As i stressed too much already, the growisofs bug should be fixed in any case. If it is possible to let K3b use cdrecord for DVD and BD, then i would appl

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 03:38:28PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > > The proper place to submit a patch in Gentoo is bugs.gentoo.org > > I encounter obstacles like having no account and running no Gentoo. An account is required, running Gentoo is not. Maybe you can convince someone who i

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > The proper place to submit a patch in Gentoo is bugs.gentoo.org I encounter obstacles like having no account and running no Gentoo. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 12:08:07PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > > attemting to create a > > BD-RE disk (Re-recordables are nice, sine non-RW media don't grow in my > > garden ;-) > > Yeah. A BD-R tree would be a fine thing. > > Note that growisofs on BD-RE would not show the bug at th

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, michaelkintz...@gmail.com: > Hi Thomas, this problem can either be fixed by patching growisofs as you > suggest, or by changing k3b to use cdrtools in preference to growisofs Joerg will heavily object, but my sincere opinion as technical expert on this field is that growisofs is the better c

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Mick
On Saturday 13 Jul 2013 11:08:07 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > > attemting to create a > > BD-RE disk (Re-recordables are nice, sine non-RW media don't grow in my > > garden ;-) > > Yeah. A BD-R tree would be a fine thing. > > Note that growisofs on BD-RE would not show the bug at the end. > I

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > maybe the problem is when closing the session or writing some kind of lead- > out, or the like. The problem is that the CLOSE TRACK/SESSION command is appropriate for the end of burning BD-R, only if it is unformatted or if it is formatted to SRM without Pseudo Overwrite. As soon as it is

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > attemting to create a > BD-RE disk (Re-recordables are nice, sine non-RW media don't grow in my > garden ;-) Yeah. A BD-R tree would be a fine thing. Note that growisofs on BD-RE would not show the bug at the end. It happens only with BD-R which you submit in blank state. If you treat yo

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Mittwoch, 10. Juli 2013, 10:36:08 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Maybe one of these ideas floating around will help the OP. > > > > One big problem is the substantial price of BD-R experiments. > > Well, I am not sure whether

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-13 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Mittwoch, 10. Juli 2013, 01:26:18 Dale wrote: > Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > paul...@andor.dropbear.id.au wrote: > >>> "Settings" -> "Configure K3b" -> "Programs" > > > > michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: > >> This just displays what's there. I can't change any of the listed > >> prog

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > My proposal is to fix and test growisofs. Well, growisofs is unmaintained since 5 years. The question is whether such a change would be suffucuent or whether there are many more problem (see the mode select problem I mentioned). > joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wr

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > One big problem is the substantial price of BD-R experiments. joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: > the OP seems to have turned several BD-Rs into coasters already. The OP reports: > > > I compared each and every file on the disk with its original, > > > but yould not fin

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-10 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 10 Jul 2013 08:57:07 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Mick wrote: > > > > cdrecord is installed, I have no idea why k3b chose to use growisofs > > > > for creating the >10G isofs. > > > > > > > > I did not try cdrecord (How can I change which programs k3b uses?) > > > > > > "Settings" -> "C

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: > > Maybe one of these ideas floating around will help the OP. > > One big problem is the substantial price of BD-R experiments. Well, I am not sure whether you noticed: the OP seems to have turned several BD-Rs into coasters already.

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale wrote: > I thought it might be worth a mention as a temporary workaround. If the > growisofs file is removed, k3b won't find it and can't use it. Of > course, it may not work at all then either. I'm not a k3b expert but do > use it sometimes. > > Maybe one of these ideas floating around

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: > > I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. > > In order to make it use cdrecord for DVD and BD ? > > (Cough.) > > growisofs is unsurpassed with DVD. I am a competitor of it It seems that you are not correcl

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale wrote: > > I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. > > Just a thought. If growisofs is not available and if cdrecord at the same time is available, k3b should (if everything works correctly) select cdrecord. This may be a way to go. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schi

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick wrote: > > > cdrecord is installed, I have no idea why k3b chose to use growisofs for > > > creating the >10G isofs. > > > > > > I did not try cdrecord (How can I change which programs k3b uses?) > > > > "Settings" -> "Configure K3b" -> "Programs" > > This just displays what's there. I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: > Maybe one of these ideas floating around will help the OP. One big problem is the substantial price of BD-R experiments. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-10 Thread Dale
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: >> I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. > In order to make it use cdrecord for DVD and BD ? > > (Cough.) > > growisofs is unsurpassed with DVD. I am a competitor of it > (by libburn) and believe to be able t

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: > I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. In order to make it use cdrecord for DVD and BD ? (Cough.) growisofs is unsurpassed with DVD. I am a competitor of it (by libburn) and believe to be able to judge its doings in respect to the

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-09 Thread Dale
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > paul...@andor.dropbear.id.au wrote: >>> "Settings" -> "Configure K3b" -> "Programs" > michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: >> This just displays what's there. I can't change any of the listed programs >> from this screen. > So one should rather repair growisofs. > It i

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, paul...@andor.dropbear.id.au wrote: > > "Settings" -> "Configure K3b" -> "Programs" michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: > This just displays what's there. I can't change any of the listed programs > from this screen. So one should rather repair growisofs. It is not a big deal. Have a nice d

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-09 Thread Mick
On Monday 08 Jul 2013 07:53:14 Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 14:06:36 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > On Samstag, 6. Juli 2013, 23:55:52 Joerg Schilling wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > Any ideas what could have gone wrong? > > > > > > It is interesting that there is no error message in th

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > I don't use k3b but I know when I burn a 25GB disc image using > > growisofs, I have to disable the spare sectors otherwise it won't fit > > on the disc, and it burns all the way until the end where it fails, > > rather than "knowing" ahead of time that it won't fit.

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-08 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Sonntag, 7. Juli 2013, 17:19:30 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Alexander Puchmayr > > wrote: > > I just burned all my pictures from my last vacation on a blueray-disk > > using > > k3b, and for no apparent reason it stoped at 99.8% and complained an error > > (I/O error

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-07 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 14:06:36 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > On Samstag, 6. Juli 2013, 23:55:52 Joerg Schilling wrote: > [...] > > > > Any ideas what could have gone wrong? > > > > It is interesting that there is no error message in the output from your > > attachment. > > > > k3b should usew cdrecor

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > I just burned all my pictures from my last vacation on a blueray-disk using > k3b, and for no apparent reason it stoped at 99.8% and complained an error > (I/O error). I checked the logs (see attached file), but could not find a > hint.

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-07 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > k3b should usew cdrecord instead of growisofs in case that cdrecord is > > installed. Is cdrecord missing or why did k3b use growisofs? > > > > Did you explicitely try cdrecord? > > > > cdrecord is installed, I have no idea why k3b chose to use growisofs for > cre

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-07 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Samstag, 6. Juli 2013, 23:55:52 Joerg Schilling wrote: [...] > > > > Any ideas what could have gone wrong? > > It is interesting that there is no error message in the output from your > attachment. > > k3b should usew cdrecord instead of growisofs in case that cdrecord is > installed. Is cdre

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > I just burned all my pictures from my last vacation on a blueray-disk using > k3b, and for no apparent reason it stoped at 99.8% and complained an error > (I/O error). I checked the logs (see attached file), but could not find a > hint. > I compared e