a cheap Samsung TS-H552 (DL, +R/RW, -R/RW, ...). This one usually
works but has already killed three DVD+Rs with the message in $subj;
full messages (the one I was able to paste from my console, likely
missing a few lines due to scrollback and copy-paste issues) follow.
<this is the output of dvd+rw-mediainfo>
INQUIRY: [TSSTcorp][CD/DVDW TS-H552B][TS03]
GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
Mounted Media: 1Bh, DVD+R
READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]:
Media Book Type: A1h, DVD+R book [revision 1]
Media ID: RITEK/R02
<OK, now burn it...>
[root@donkey tmpburn]# growisofs -Z /dev/hdc=file.dvd
Executing 'builtin_dd if=file.dvd of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0'
/dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 4.1x1385KBps.
0/4519313408 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:??
0/4519313408 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:??
0/4519313408 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:??
:-? the LUN appears to be stuck writing LBA=10h, retry in 0ms
:-[ WRITE@LBA=80000010h failed with SK=2h/ASC=04h/ACQ=08h]: Resource
temporarily unavailable
:-( write failed: Resource temporarily unavailable