Comments on: Howto: Linux write (burn) data to DVD or DVD/RW

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:33:29 +0000

I am unable to burn a DVD with any program. I tried the command above

trevor@Trevscomp:~/Desktop$ growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=dws5203209.iso
Executing ‘builtin_dd if=dws5203209.iso of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0′
/dev/dvd: “Current Write Speed” is 3.3x1352KBps.
0/2206629888 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
0/2206629888 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
0/2206629888 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
0/2206629888 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
0/2206629888 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
0/2206629888 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
0/2206629888 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
0/2206629888 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
0/2206629888 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
0/2206629888 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
0/2206629888 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
0/2206629888 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
:-[ WRITE@LBA=0h failed with SK=3h/POWER CALIBRATION AREA ERROR]: Input/output error
:-( write failed: Input/output error

CAN ANYONE HELP ME?????

By: anonymouse

anonymouse — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:00:53 +0000

Update:
This is the command as specified in the man page, # man growisofs :-
To use growisofs to write a pre-mastered ISO-image to a DVD:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso

Do not use the example above, which is
# growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/tmp/var-www-disk1.iso

By: anonymouse

anonymouse — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:57:48 +0000

Now use the growisofs command to write the ISO onto the DVD:
# growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/tmp/var-www-disk1.iso

This will literally write an iso image into a directory on the DVD, which is probably not what most people want. I used this command:
growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=movie.iso
and now have a disc with an ISO image, and not an ISO image that was copied litereally on the DVD. Not a lot of use for my DVD player, and the waste of a DVD-R disc. Opps.
Oh well.

By: Saynos

Saynos — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:26:30 +0000

I had a broken(?) DVD RW disc, that NeroLinux isn’t wrote. I run “dvd+rw-format -force=full /dev/dvd ” command on my Gentoo, later I wrote that DVD without any problem! Thaks a lot! :-)
(and sorry ma bad English)

By: vivek

vivek — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:11:22 +0000

Yes it should work on RHEL 4 / 5. No need to mount dvd.

By: sohail

sohail — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:00:30 +0000

Will these steps work on RHEL4/RHEL5?

Will we need to mount the DVD drive before burning?

By: dj

dj — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:23:20 +0000

Nice.

How about DVD-RW packet-writing and UDF filesystem.

By: Levi Arias

Levi Arias — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:10:04 +0000

I have a Acer laptop and when I put a cd/dvd disk in it the message says…No disc in drive E:

By: The Evil Bald Person

The Evil Bald Person — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:13:00 +0000

Using PAR2 on removable media is not as daft as some of you think.

I’ve read from a CD in the past where an edge… erm, chord, containing data had actually broken off!

Just use dd it to a disk image (possibly adding options conv=noerror,sync).

It’ll probably make loads of strange noises and take ages, but you should be able to do it depending on where the damage is… unles your disk blows up in the process of course!

By: RichardBronosky

RichardBronosky — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:40:06 +0000

True, the man page for growisofs has more complete info, but I would have never know to look for growisofs without the page. I would not have felt confident in using mkisofs and growisofs together without this example. So I’d like to thank the author for his redundancy. This explanation works for the way I think.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:05:50 +0000

Thanks for the howto, I don’t think I would have figured out which tool to use otherwise.

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:06:22 +0000

Heh
perhaps what op or his script suggesting that you can recover particular block provided that DVD can be read by DVD drive.

But in most case DVD reader refuses to read corrupted DVD. I have used Sony, HP, Samsung DVD/RW etc none of they were able to read corrupted DVD.

By: notme

notme — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:38:42 +0000

if the DVD gets damaged, how can you recover the file? Even it’s not only that the file is corrupted. It’s also that you can’t actually read the dvd. The dvd reader woudl go crazy and you wouldn’t be able to copy the damaged file to disk, afaik?

By: BasketCase

BasketCase — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:25:56 +0000

Since having growisofs make the iso as it burns has already been mentioned here is another tip…

Before you start burning use par2create from par2cmdline (http://parchive.sourceforge.net/) to generate enough par2 recovery blocks to fill any space that is left on the disc. That way if the disc gets damaged later you may be able to recover the lost data.

I have written a perl script to calculate out the correct number of par2 blocks to generate and to do it (it also makes a .md5 file). I have published the script here: http://www.sanitarium.net/unix_stuff/par2calc.txt

By: johhnycomelate

johhnycomelate — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:22:27 +0000

man growisofs is a much better manual to using growisofs

By: Hans-Werner

Hans-Werner — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:32:34 +0000

Since growisofs has an inbuilt functionality that allows to directly pipe mkisofs’s output, it is probably more common that you call it without making an ISO beforehand. Note also that it’s absolutely not needed to format a DVD+RW more than once. You can just write again with the -Z option in later runs. Yes, this is different from CD-RWs.