DVD burning with mkisofs and cdrecord?

Aleksandar Milivojevic amilivojevic at pbl.ca
Tue Mar 29 20:20:55 UTC 2005


Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to create a DVD+R with mkisofs and cdrecord?

Yes, it is possible.  However, there is a bug somewhere (libraries? 
kernel? cdrecord?) when DVD+R media is used (any other type of media 
such as DVD+RW, DVD-R, or DVD-RW works fine).

The bug is that with some burners, DVD+R media is not fixated at the end 
of burning.  Such  DVDs are not readable in anything.  Good news is that 
you can fixate them after the fact and they will become readable.  Some 
people reported that additional invocation of "cdrecord -fix" works, 
some reported that it doesn't work.  Fixating disk under Windows works 
every time (for example, in Nero go to disk info, it will show that disk 
is not closed and will offer you option of "closing" it, another name 
for fixation).

So if you already burned some DVD+R media, don't throw it into garbage 
yet.  All it needs is fixating and it will become readable.

I don't know if k3b has the same problem with DVD+R media as mkisofs and 
cdrecord do.

For more info, see:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136665

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