[Cialug] DVD burner issue

[Leeland Heins]

On Wed Dec  2 17:26:00 2009, Central Iowa Linux Users Group wrote:
> I have a DVD burner that has developed a strange issue. It can burn
> exactly 1 DVD per power cycle. Attempts to burn a second disc resulting
> in the drive locking itself, writing just enough to waste a disc, and
> blocking IO on the write process such that "kill -9" won't even get rid
> of it. A soft reboot isn't sufficient to clear it; a full power-down and
> cold reboot is necessary. This is on Debian Testing (amd64) with a
> 2.6.30 kernel.

Here's what I'd try...  Boot up a live distro from (for example) a USB stick (or maybe an
external USB hard drive) and then see if you can burn w/o errors and burn a 2nd DVD-R.  If it
works from a live distro it isn't likely a hardware problem.

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Leeland Heins, leeh at softwarejanitor.com