Hello, Everyone I just installed a new Asus Bluray drive/burner and everything seems to work fine so far except for one thing: I can't burn to Bluray (BD-R) media using K3B. K3B detects my media correctly, even tells me in the burn dialog that I have an "Empty BD-R medium" in the drive. I am trying to burn 21.4 GiB to a disc that K3B automatically detects as having a capacity of 23.3 GiB. So, things look good so far... Then I do the following: 1. "Open the burn dialog for the current project" 2. Click the "Burn" button. 3. This soon results in this interesting message: Found medium: Empty BD-R medium Please insert an empty medium of size 21.4 GiB or larger into drive ASUS BC-12B1ST b (/dev/sr0) Load Eject Cancel
As you probably assume, clicking "Load" just redraws the above quoted error message...
Right now I am using mkisofs to make an image of the same 21.4 GiB of data that I want to test this new drive with. We'll see what happens...
Oh yeah, this new drive rips CD's perfectly, as well as burning to single layer DVD media. I don't have any dual layer around to play with.
Thank you for your help, Steven P. Ulrick
Sorry. I think my last message may have been HTML. I sent it from the Gmail web interface...
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Steven Ulrick meow8282@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, Everyone I just installed a new Asus Bluray drive/burner and everything seems to work fine so far except for one thing: I can't burn to Bluray (BD-R) media using K3B. K3B detects my media correctly, even tells me in the burn dialog that I have an "Empty BD-R medium" in the drive. I am trying to burn 21.4 GiB to a disc that K3B automatically detects as having a capacity of 23.3 GiB. So, things look good so far... Then I do the following:
- "Open the burn dialog for the current project"
- Click the "Burn" button.
- This soon results in this interesting message:
Found medium: Empty BD-R medium Please insert an empty medium of size 21.4 GiB or larger into drive ASUS BC-12B1ST b (/dev/sr0) Load Eject Cancel
As you probably assume, clicking "Load" just redraws the above quoted error message...
Right now I am using mkisofs to make an image of the same 21.4 GiB of data that I want to test this new drive with. We'll see what happens...
Oh yeah, this new drive rips CD's perfectly, as well as burning to single layer DVD media. I don't have any dual layer around to play with.
Thank you for your help, Steven P. Ulrick
On Wed, 7 May 2014 20:29:38 -0500 Steven Ulrick wrote:
I can't burn to Bluray (BD-R) media using K3B.
Yea, me either. Personally, I build and install the one true version of cdrecord from:
http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html
K3B will use that instead of the lame broken alternatives available in fedora repos if it finds it.
My blu-ray scripts and programs can be found here:
http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/software/isopack/isopack.html
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 7 May 2014 20:29:38 -0500 Steven Ulrick wrote:
I can't burn to Bluray (BD-R) media using K3B.
Yea, me either. Personally, I build and install the one true version of cdrecord from:
http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html
K3B will use that instead of the lame broken alternatives available in fedora repos if it finds it.
My blu-ray scripts and programs can be found here:
http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/software/isopack/isopack.html
Hello, Tom I tried the following: 1. "pack-dir TEST/ &> bluray-test.txt" That produced a file that contains a list of the files that I want to burn. 2. "pack-and-write bluray-test.txt" The output of that follows:
steve@afolkey2 ~$ pack-and-write bluray-test.txt Found new best packing with 6541 groups, 6541 files at 0 seconds, Total bytes in files 23022705997 Total bytes in ISO image 23051933696 All files fit in media. /usr/local/spu/assorted/i/isopack/bin/pack-and-write: line 28: 10340 Segmentation fault (core dumped) isopack -sectors=BD-R.SL -waste=10 -algorithm=brute -algorithm=luck0 -close=1 -watchdog=45 -infile="$pathlist" -outfile="$tmpfile" steve@afolkey2 ~$
So, that's where I stand right now. Of course, I may completely misunderstand how to use your scripts. Which is why I would like you to tell me if that is the case...
Thank you, Steven P. Ulrick
On Wed, 7 May 2014 20:54:05 -0500 Steven Ulrick wrote:
So, that's where I stand right now. Of course, I may completely misunderstand how to use your scripts. Which is why I would like you to tell me if that is the case...
Sounds more like a bug in my isopack tool. Not sure I ever tried it on a collection of files too small to fill a disc. You should be able to use mkisofs and cdrecord for that. The isopack tool is designed primarily to cut down the list so the files it does pick will maximize the use of the disk.
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 7 May 2014 20:54:05 -0500 Steven Ulrick wrote:
So, that's where I stand right now. Of course, I may completely misunderstand how to use your scripts. Which is why I would like you to tell me if that is the case...
Sounds more like a bug in my isopack tool. Not sure I ever tried it on a collection of files too small to fill a disc. You should be able to use mkisofs and cdrecord for that. The isopack tool is designed primarily to cut down the list so the files it does pick will maximize the use of the disk.
I eventually found out that I messed up when I bought this drive... It can't burn Bluray discs. Here is a link to the full product description: http://www.asus.com/Optical_Drives/BC12B1ST/specifications/
For your convenience, here is a list from that page of all the write modes that this device supports:
Write Speed DVD+R : 16X DVD-R : 16X DVD+RW : 8X DVD-RW : 6X DVD+R(DL) : 8X DVD-R (DL) : 8X DVD-RAM : 12X CD-R : 48X CD-RW : 24X
Writing Mode DVD+R & DVD+R (DL) : Sequential Write DVD-R & DVD-R(DL) : DAO/Incremental Recording DVD+RW : Random Write DVD-RW : DAO/Restricted Overwrite/Incremental Recording DVD-RAM : Random Write CD-R/RW : DAO/TAO/SAO/Packet Write
So, I need to return this drive and get the right one.
Steven P. Ulrick
On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 14:37 -0500, Steven Ulrick wrote:
I eventually found out that I messed up when I bought this drive... It can't burn Bluray discs.
The same kind of thing happened when DVDs came out - there were a few CD-burner/DVD-reader combo drives.
I suppose they're catering to the people who don't want to burn the latest media, just watch videos, and/or don't have machines with enough oomph for burning video discs. And back then, it was some time before you could get blank DVDs, so the CD-burner/DVD-reader combo made sense.
On 05/09/14 12:00, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 14:37 -0500, Steven Ulrick wrote:
I eventually found out that I messed up when I bought this drive... It can't burn Bluray discs.
The same kind of thing happened when DVDs came out - there were a few CD-burner/DVD-reader combo drives.
I suppose they're catering to the people who don't want to burn the latest media, just watch videos, and/or don't have machines with enough oomph for burning video discs. And back then, it was some time before you could get blank DVDs, so the CD-burner/DVD-reader combo made sense.
in addition, it is a crappy way of recouping expense of developing optical disk media drives. the slight extra cost to burn is not that much greater of read only.
before the first cd drive was released, designs for dvd where already developed. only decision to be made was whose design would be used.
when it comes to optical drives, it is "let the buyer beware" if he does not read all the labeling and fine print.
On 09.05.2014 08:00, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 14:37 -0500, Steven Ulrick wrote:
I eventually found out that I messed up when I bought this drive... It can't burn Bluray discs.
The same kind of thing happened when DVDs came out - there were a few CD-burner/DVD-reader combo drives.
I suppose they're catering to the people who don't want to burn the latest media, just watch videos, and/or don't have machines with enough oomph for burning video discs. And back then, it was some time before you could get blank DVDs, so the CD-burner/DVD-reader combo made sense.
This vendor specifies devices very clearly, even devices per se have specific names. :)
e.g.
- BC-12B1ST Writing Mode: DVD+R ... "BC" == "Blu-ray Combo" "Combo" == "Reader"
- BW-12B1ST Writing Mode: BD-RE ... "BW" == "Blu-ray Writer"
poma
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
I've had luck using libisoburn via xorriso or cdrskin
Hello, Richard I tried the following:
steve@afolkey2 ~$ cdrskin -v dev=3,0,0 speed=6 fs=8m driveropts=burnfree padsize=300k -eject bluray-test.iso cdrskin 1.3.6 : limited cdrecord compatibility wrapper for libburn cdrskin: verbosity level : 1 cdrskin: NOTE : greying out all drives besides given dev='/dev/sr0' cdrskin: scanning for devices ... cdrskin: ... scanning for devices done cdrskin: beginning to burn disc cdrskin: status 4 burn_disc_full "There is a disc with data on it in the drive" Current: BD-ROM cdrskin: FATAL : No suitable media detected cdrskin: Media : ** closed ** BD-ROM cdrskin: burning failed cdrskin: FATAL : burning failed.
Is this significant? "cdrskin: status 4 burn_disc_full "There is a disc with data on it in the drive" Current: BD-ROM cdrskin: FATAL : No suitable media detected cdrskin: Media : ** closed ** BD-ROM"
I picked the last disc I tried from the middle of the spindle. This spindle of blank BD-R media just arrived at my house today, and it was shrink wrapped and appeared to be new...
Steven P. Ulrick
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Steven Ulrick meow8282@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, Everyone I just installed a new Asus Bluray drive/burner and everything seems to work fine so far except for one thing: I can't burn to Bluray (BD-R) media using K3B. K3B detects my media correctly, even tells me in the burn dialog that I have an "Empty BD-R medium" in the drive. I am trying to burn 21.4 GiB to a disc that K3B automatically detects as having a capacity of 23.3 GiB. So, things look good so far...
OK, everyone, sorry for the noise... No wonder the drive was such a good price. It's read-only for Bluray media :(
Steven P. Ulrick
On 08.05.2014 04:21, Steven Ulrick wrote:
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Steven Ulrick meow8282@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, Everyone I just installed a new Asus Bluray drive/burner and everything seems to work fine so far except for one thing: I can't burn to Bluray (BD-R) media using K3B. K3B detects my media correctly, even tells me in the burn dialog that I have an "Empty BD-R medium" in the drive. I am trying to burn 21.4 GiB to a disc that K3B automatically detects as having a capacity of 23.3 GiB. So, things look good so far...
OK, everyone, sorry for the noise... No wonder the drive was such a good price. It's read-only for Bluray media :(
Steven P. Ulrick
I guess the R in BD-R means read. Bought it from Del Boy? :) Cheapest BR escritor should be around fifty bucks. Check into a nearby store.
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