Re: wodim writes DVD

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Misko wrote:
> I am trying to burn iso image to DVD with no success.
> Already wasted 5 discs and have no clue what is wrong.
>
> Here is what dmesg report after wodim filed to write to DVD:
>
> $ dmesg | tail
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> hdc: rw=0, want=68, limit=4
> isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16
>
> butt I think that iso image is not bigger than it should be:
>
> $ ls -l w.iso
> -rw-r--r-- 1 misko misko 4344049664 2008-01-21 18:29 w.iso
>
> What confuse me Why is Total size reported by wodim so much bigger
> than real image size? 
>  
> Track 01: data  4142 MB
> Total size:     4757 MB (471:21.57) = 2121118 sectors
> Lout start:     4758 MB (471:23/43) = 2121118 sectors
>
> Here is full output from wodim:
>
> $ wodim -v -sao speed=1 w.iso

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I'd say this is a perfect testcase for what Joerg keeps talking about:

1. Download 
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/cdrtools-2.01.01a37.tar.bz2

2. Untar: tar -xjvf cdrtools-2.01.01a37.tar.bz2

3. cd to the dir. where you untarred the file. (/usr/doc/ in my case)

4. do 'make'.Will spit out many messages. Run it in the 'script' shell 
to be able to see what happened afterwards.

5. Depending on your architecture cdrecord will be (in my case) in 
/usr/doc/cdrtools-2.01.01/cdrecord/OBJ/i686-linux-cc.

6. copy cdrecord from there to /usr/bin

7. try 'cdrecord -v -sao speed=1 w.iso' and see what the results are.

Hugo