cdrecord problem

[John Wendel]

Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> 
>> speaking of this...sorry to steal the thread (well not too sorry)...
>>
>> my main workstation (now FC-3, previously FC-1) has always failed
>> writing CD's at the time of fixating (regardless of speed) - it hangs
>> and never finishes. It has always done that - regardless of which brand
>> of media. I haven't bothered with it since I have the identical drive in
>> my Windows XP machine and it works - and another one in my Linux server
>> which works too.
>>
>> I just kind of assumed that there is something wrong with the drive -
>> any suggestions or info to direct me to?
> 
> 
> There's a bug somewhere in Fedora affecting recording of DVD+R media. It 
> is not related to the brand of media, but rather to the type of media.  
> Specifically, DVD+R media.  All other types (including DVD+RW, 
> reportedly) work OK.  Since I got same behaviour with three different 
> programs (cdrecord, growisofs, and that gnome GUI thing), it might also 
> be kernel related.
> 
> If you are having trouble with CD-R media, than it is probably something 
> different.
> 
> For more details:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136665
> 

I burn DVD+R here all the time, using growisofs and K3B, no problems. My 
drive is a NEC 3520-A. The media is TKD DVD+R 8X single layer. The 
resulting disks work fine in my computer and my DVD player.

Regards,

John