problem buring iso to external usb dvd

[Shawn K. O'Shea]

I took a look at the man page for growisofs since that was a new tool
(to me) and your syntax is correct per the page.

My only suggestion would be to try cdrecord instead and see if it can
do the job. cdrecord is also included in FC5 and can burn dvds.  The
syntax looks like:
cdrecord -v speed=X dev=A,B,C cdimage.iso

I think cdrecord can work with dev=/dev/dvd, but I find it's happier
with a SCSI-type spec. You can have it scan for your drive to give you
that A,B,C number combo with cdrecord -scanbus

-Shawn

On 29 Oct 2007 00:29:04 -0400, Kevin D. Clark <kevin_d_clark at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I'm looking for ideas as to what I might be doing wrong with burning
> ISO images to DVD.  I can burn data DVDs just fine in my setup but ISO
> images don't work.
>
> Details:
>
> Linux 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 #1 Tue Mar 14 15:48:33 EST 2006
> Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)
> dvd+rw-tools-7.0-0.fc5.4
> LITE-ON USB 2.0 External DVD Burner Model SHW-160P6SU
> Media: various Ridata and Maxell DVD-R and DVD+RW disks
>
> This writes a DVD successfully; I can read this on other machines:
>
>   $ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -R -J -pad some_directory
>
> This fails:
>
>   $ growisofs -speed=1 -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=F-7-i386-DVD.iso
>   Executing 'builtin_dd if=F-7-i386-DVD.iso of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0'
>   :-( write failed: Input/output error
>
>
> Running as root doesn't help (non-sudo, BTW); I've tried specifying
> various other devices in /dev and this doesn't help either
> (/dev/dvdwriter, /dev/scd0, /dev/dvdrw-sr0).
>
>
> Any hints as to what I am overlooking would be appreciated -- thanks!
>
> --kevin
>
> PS  I'm not going to be able to get back to this system until later
>     tonight.
>
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