[kde-linux] k3b won't verify data

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 04 February 2008 17:26:25 Gaffer. wrote:
> On Monday 04 February 2008 17:12, Anne Wilson inscribed thus:
> > On Saturday 02 February 2008 10:20:13 david wrote:
> > > Gaffer. wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 02 February 2008 09:55, david inscribed thus:
> > > >> Have k3b 1.0.4 running with KDE 3.5.8 (Debian Lenny/Sid).
> > > >> Whenever I tell it to verify data after burning, it completes
> > > >> the burn, pops open the CD tray, waits patiently until I push
> > > >> the tray back in. Then it says "Verifying Track" and NOTHING
> > > >> NOTHING NOTHING HAPPENS. The CD drive makes a few clicking
> > > >> noise, but no reading begins. Just sits there doing nothing.
> > > >> If I flip to another desktop, the CD icon shows up, can be
> > > >> mounted, opened, data read from it, unmounted, ejected. And
> > > >> the whole time k3b sits there "verifying data" but never
> > > >> reading anything.
> > > >>
> > > >> Can't find a k3b bug database anywhere, but apparently this is
> > > >> well documented amongst Ubuntu users in their forums.
> > > >>
> > > >> Anything I can do about it?
> > > >
> > > > This bug has been there quite a while.  In my experience it
> > > > only seems to affect DVD's  CD's write and verify for me just
> > > > fine.
>
> I have only one drive, a NEC_DVD_ RW ND-3500AG-B.  Its seems only to
> fail to verify when I burn a DVD.  The burn always completes just
> fine, then I hit cancel when its fails to start the verification.
>
Is there any possibility of borrowing a drive and trying that?  I could be way 
off beam, but every thread I've read about this seems to come back to a 
hardware problem.  As a matter of interest, how old is the drive?  Is it one 
of the early generation of DVD drives?  Standards were not as adhered to in 
the early days - the old business of trying to get an advantage by doing 
something non-standard.  Anyway, if you can borrow a drive and try that it 
would answer the problem, one way or the other.

Anne

> > > I have only a CD burner, although the drive is one of those combo
> > > drives able to read DVDs.
> > >
> > > Guess it's not going to get fixed ...
> >
> > I don't know whether it's an Ubuntu issue, but I suspect not.  I
> > think that most times I've heard of it the reporter has mentioned
> > owning a combo drive like yours.  If you are able to put a standard
> > DVD drive in I suspect the problem will go away.  It certainly is
> > fine on every system I've handled, but I've never had a combo
> > drive.
> >
> > Anne


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