[SOLVED] Blu-Ray data disk burning.

Richard Cranium · 04-26-2016, 10:05 PM

After a few attempts that resulted in creating drink coasters with cdrecord (Slackware64 14.1), I used the Slackbuild for libburn, used the included cdrskin executable as outlined at https://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/2015/03/msg00001.html, and got a perfectly working data archive disk.

FTIO · 04-26-2016, 10:34 PM

k3b has always worked fine on my 14.1_64 system with BD's other than it slows down at a certain point, but it speeds back up and always averages ~40MB/sec.

Richard Cranium · 04-26-2016, 10:38 PM

Fair enough; I should add that I wasn't using a GUI to do my burning.

rkelsen · 04-27-2016, 05:23 AM

Why not use growisofs? It's been part of Slackware for many years.

... But I, too must admit that I haven't burned a disc from the CLI for many years... K3B ain't failed me once in the >12 years I've been using it.

Richard Cranium · 04-27-2016, 10:09 AM

cdrecord's been part of Slackware for many moons too. I've never had any issues burning CD-ROMs with it. Blu-Ray appears to be a different beastie.

Just to be clear, K3B worked when I used the GUI on the machine with the Blu-Ray burner to create a BD-R disk. cdrecord from the command line did not work with a UDF formatted image. cdrskin from the command line did. I may risk another disk and try growisofs

JamesGT · 04-27-2016, 08:06 PM

Here is the procedure I use to burn discs from the command line.

Code:

dd if=/dev/zero of=file.iso bs=1M count=19000
mkudffs --vid=CDTITLE file.iso
mkdir /mnt/loop 
mount -o loop -t udf file.iso /mnt/loop 
cp big_file /mnt/loop 
umount /mnt/loop
growisofs -speed 4 -Z /dev/dvd=file.iso

I had great success with Slackware64 13.0 with k3b, but with 13.1, 13.1337 and 14.0 I had all kinds of issues. I didn't even try to burn anything with 14.1 as I have this working so well anyways.

James

Richard Cranium · 04-27-2016, 08:20 PM

Thanks rkelsen & JamesGT.

For some reason, when I saw "growisofs" I didn't think "write that to media". I'll give it a shot when I make my next backup.