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input/output issue/bug in growisofs



Dear friends,

I am becoming desparate with my DVD burner and I really would appreciate your help with this issue.

I am trying to copy DVDs with the following commands:

First I make an image of the source DVD with:

dvdbackup -i /media/hdc/ -M -o /home/andrei/DVDBackups/ -n NameOfTheBackupedDVD

Then I burn the image to a DVD+RW with:

growisofs -Z  /dev/scd1 -dvd-video /home/andrei/DVDBackups/NameOfTheBackupedDVD/ -overburn

I have had growisofs incorrectly find the size of the blank DVD+RW I put in my burner  (it found 2GB+ instead of the 4.7 which they have in reality).  A typical error message looks like this:

:-( /dev/scd1: 2295104 blocks are free, 3589847 to be written!

So I use the -overburn option to force the burner to ignore this mistake.

I have gotten the same input/output error several times.  Here are two examples:

 63.93% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 29 21:19:15 2006
 :-? the LUN appears to be stuck writing LBA=230540h, keep retrying in 23ms
 :-[ WRITE@LBA=230540h failed with SK=5h/ASC=63h/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error
 :-( write failed: Input/output error
 /dev/scd1: flushing cache
 /dev/scd1: writing lead-out


 63.79% done, estimate finish Sat Dec 30 10:55:15 2006
  63.93% done, estimate finish Sat Dec 30 10:55:15 2006
  :-[ WRITE@LBA=230540h failed with SK=5h/ASC=63h/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error
  :-( write failed: Input/output error
  /dev/scd1: flushing cache
  /dev/scd1: writing lead-out

It also happened around 58% done.  I tried using three different hard drive as the input/source for the DVD image but the mistake happens again and again.  Sometimes, with other DVDs it does not happen, but recently it happens a lot.

Is there a way to force growisofs to skip any writing errors?  If there are errors in the source image of the DVD - I was told that some commercial DVDs have intentional errors - can I skip them?

Here is some info about my DVD burner:

dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/scd1
INQUIRY:                [TSSTcorp][CD/DVDW SH-S182D][SB00]
GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
 Mounted Media:         1Ah, DVD+RW
 Current Write Speed:   4.0x1385=5540KB/s
 Write Speed #0:        4.0x1385=5540KB/s
 Write Speed #1:        2.0x1385=2770KB/s
GET [CURRENT] PERFORMANCE:
 Write Performance:     4.0x1385=5540KB/s@[0 -> 2295104]
 Speed Descriptor#0:    00/2295103 R@8.0x1385=11080KB/s W@4.0x1385 =5540KB/s
 Speed Descriptor#1:    00/2295103 R@8.0x1385=11080KB/s W@2.4x1385=3324KB/s
 Speed Descriptor#2:    00/2295103 R@8.0x1385=11080KB/s W@2.4x1385=3324KB/s
READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]:
 Media Book Type:       00h, DVD-ROM book [revision 0]
 Media ID:              MKM/A02
 Legacy lead-out at:    2295104*2KB=4700372992
READ DISC INFORMATION:
 Disc status:           complete
 Number of Sessions:    1
 State of Last Session: complete
 Number of Tracks:      1
 BG Format Status:      complete
READ FORMAT CAPACITIES:
 formatted:             2295104*2048=4700372992
 26h(0):                2295104*2048=4700372992
READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]:
 Track State:           complete
 Track Start Address:   0*2KB
 Free Blocks:           0*2KB
 Track Size:            2295104*2KB
FABRICATED TOC:
 Track#1  :             14@0
 Track#AA :             17@2295104
 Multi-session Info:    #1@0
READ CAPACITY:          2295104*2048=4700372992

I am using growisofs 7.0 under Kanotix, which is a Debian (Sid) GNU/Linux based distro.

Many thanks in advance for any pointers on how I can get growisofs to work with my hardware!

Kind regards & happy new year 2007!

Andrei

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