Comment 10 for bug 1356528

Hi,

> But growisofs upstream is not maintained any more. So there is few
> use in diagnosing the problem, unless you want to run a fixed
> growisofs on your machine(s). In that case, i could make proposals.

thanks again for your diagnose :-) At least I am going to know what to
deal with now and stay with a probably unfixed growisofs..

> Measuring a blank DVD-R with a 1970s Geodreieck ...
> 29.5 mm is very narrow. Are you sure this DVD was written with
> -use-the-force-luke=dao:... ?

I'm really sure I did..

> Selfish question: How do xorriso or cdrskin perform ?
>
> xorriso -as cdrecord -v -dao dev=/dev/sr0 speed=8 fs=32m medien/filme
> /DVD-ABBILDER/show-musikprojekt.iso
>
> resp.
>
> cdrskin -v -dao dev=/dev/sr0 speed=8 fs=32m medien/filme/DVD-ABBILDER
> /show-musikprojekt.iso

mj@t500:~$ xorriso -as cdrecord -v -dao dev=/dev/sr0 speed=8 fs=32m
medien/filme/DVD-ABBILDER/show-musikprojekt.iso
xorriso 1.3.2 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project.

Drive current: -outdev '/dev/sr0'
Media current: DVD-R sequential recording
Media status : is blank
Media summary: 0 sessions, 0 data blocks, 0 data, 4489m free
Beginning to write data track.
xorriso : UPDATE : 0 of 188 MB written (fifo 99%) [buf 0%]
xorriso : UPDATE : 0 of 188 MB written (fifo 99%) [buf 0%] 0.0x.
xorriso : UPDATE : 0 of 188 MB written (fifo 99%) [buf 0%] 0.0x.
xorriso : UPDATE : 0 of 188 MB written (fifo 99%) [buf 0%] 0.0x.
...
xorriso : UPDATE : 188 of 188 MB written (fifo 0%) [buf 100%] 0.0x.
xorriso : UPDATE : 188 of 188 MB written (fifo 0%) [buf 100%] 0.0x.
xorriso : UPDATE : 188 of 188 MB written (fifo 0%) [buf 100%] 0.0x.
Writing to '/dev/sr0' completed successfully.

xorriso : NOTE : Re-assessing -outdev '/dev/sr0'
xorriso : NOTE : Disc status unsuitable for writing
Drive current: -outdev '/dev/sr0'
Media current: DVD-ROM
Media status : is written , is closed
Media summary: 1 session, 96675 data blocks, 189m data, 0 free

mj@t500:~$ cdrskin -v -dao dev=/dev/sr0 speed=8 fs=32m
medien/filme/DVD-ABBILDER/show-musikprojekt.iso
cdrskin 1.3.4 : 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 1 burn_disc_blank "The drive holds a blank disc"
Current: DVD-R sequential recording
Track 01: data 188 MB
Total size: 188 MB (21:29.00) = 96525 sectors
Lout start: 188 MB (21:31/00) = 96675 sectors
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8 in real SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 188 of 188 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 1.5x.
cdrskin: thank you for being patient for 245 seconds
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 197683200/197683200 (96525 sectors).
Writing time: 246.104s
Cdrskin: fifo had 96525 puts and 96525 gets.
Cdrskin: fifo was 0 times empty and 6597 times full, min fill was 99%.
Min drive buffer fill was 0%
cdrskin: burning done

With both programs the written area measured from the center of disc is
about 35 mm :-)

Thanks,
jan.