Re: Unreadable DVDs

[steef <steefvanduin@zonnet.nl>]

[KS] wrote:
> Damien Solley wrote:
>   
> > On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 07:13 -0600, Paul Stolp wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > * Damien Solley <dsolley.listmail@gmail.com> [2006-02-23 21:15]:
> > >
> > >       
> > > > Greetings,
> > > > I am trying to write single session DVD+R discs under Debian Etch (and
> > > > previously also in Sarge). I have tried Nautilus CD/DVD burner and K3b.
> > > > Both programs apparently write the disks and report a successful burn.
> > > > However, the disks cannot be mounted or read on this or any other
> > > > machine. When I check "disk info" under K3b it reports the disks as
> > > > written, but without a detected UDF or ISO filesystem. CDBurnerXPpro on
> > > > Win32 also shows the disks as written, but unreadable on windows. I have
> > > > used the default settings in all programs, no changing Joliet/RR
> > > > settings, etc. 
> > > >         
> > > Try command line, I have had no problems since using
> > > that over K3b, et al.
> > >
> > > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /some/files
> > >
> > > Very simple. Check the growisofs man page for more
> > > details.
> > >
> > >       
> > Paul,
> > Thanks for your reply, that sorted it out! Using growisofs has created
> > DVDs that are readable on any of my machines.
> > Interestingly, using nautilus or k3b the disks seem to have two
> > filesystems. Nero 6 on Win32 seems to think that both UDF and ISO9660
> > filesystems are present and the disks aren't closed. 
> > Is anybody having success with k3b or nautilus?
> > Regards
> > Damien
> >
> >
> >     
>
> The above growisofs command(by Paul) to write the files generate the
> Rock Ridge extentions(-R option) and the Joliet extensions(-J option)
> when writing the DVD. This can be found as an option in k3b under the
> burn options tab Filesystem. Try to burn a DVD+RW with k3b with those
> options checked and see if the problem persists.
>
> regards,
> /kds
>
>
>   
never tried k3b or nautilus or &&

commandline-options with resp. mkisofs cdrecord and growisofs give fine 
readable results. never used the option of Paul. use growisofs 
-dvd-campat -Z etc. only to burn pre-written iso' s. (see man growisofs) 
*without*  -R ot -J options.

steef

steef

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