I CAN get my Plextor 712a to burn cd's with K3b under fcp3 but I CAN'T get it to burn DVD's.
When I try to burn a DVD I get these error messages:

:-( write failed: Input/output error

Fatal error at startup: Input/output error

I searched around and found someone with the same problem but then the thread ended
before it was solved and I didn'd quite get what the dude was suggesting to fix it. Here it is:


quote:Originally posted by scoubidoo
I have the same problem, with a plextor 712A, I try to use K3B to, but I can burn CD but not the DVD

For my side the if I do an ls -l /dev/cdrom it point to my CD burner and if I do the same thing with ls -l /dev/DVD it point on my DVD reader

What can I do in this case ?
Thanks

You have to change the /dev/dvd link to point to your dvd burner, use "ln" do "man ln" to see how to use it, you problably should use "ln -s" for a simbolic link, but I don't recall the rest of the syntax of the comand

help!

[runt@localhost ~]$ dmesg
er: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 1033200k/1047744k available (1778k kernel code, 13844k reserved, 720k data, 208k init, 130240k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 5160.96 BogoMIPS (lpj=2580480)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebf3ff 00000000 00000000 00000080
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz stepping 09
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1462.90 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 2 msecs.
Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000
CPU 1 irqstacks, hard=c03cc000 soft=c03ac000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay loop... 5193.72 BogoMIPS (lpj=2596864)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebf3ff 00000000 00000000 00000080
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled
CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz stepping 09
Total of 2 processors activated (10354.68 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed.
Brought up 2 CPUs
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 380k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20041105
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P4._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
** PCI interrupts are no longer routed automatically. If this
** causes a device to stop working, it is probably because the
** driver failed to call pci_enable_device(). As a temporary
** workaround, the "pci=routeirq" argument restores the old
** behavior. If this argument makes the device work again,
** please email the output of "lspci" to bjorn.helgaas@hp.com
** so I can fix the driver.
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x680-0x6ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x290-0x297 has been reserved
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1106322969.230:0): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key 613E889161DD0D7B
- User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 865 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 76 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ICH5: chipset revision 2
ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hdaio, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-712A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
PDC20269: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:02:09.0
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
PDC20269: chipset revision 2
PDC20269: ROM enabled at 0xfeae0000
PDC20269: 100% native mode on irq 177
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xdf50-0xdf57, BIOS settings: hdeio, hdfio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xdf58-0xdf5f, BIOS settings: hdgio, hdhio
Probing IDE interface ide2...
hdf: Maxtor 4W060H4, ATA DISK drive
ide2 at 0xdf88-0xdf8f,0xdf86 on irq 177
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide0...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
hdf: max request size: 128KiB
hdf: 120103200 sectors (61492 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdf: cache flushes not supported
hdf: hdf1 hdf2 hdf3
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: PS/2 Logitech Mouse on isa0060/serio1
md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 43690)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI wakeup devices:
P0P4 MC97 USB1 USB2 USB3 USB4 EUSB PS2K PS2M ILAN
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
CPU0:
domain 0: span 00000003
groups: 00000001 00000002
domain 1: span 00000003
groups: 00000003
CPU1:
domain 0: span 00000003
groups: 00000002 00000001
domain 1: span 00000003
groups: 00000003
Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
security: 3 users, 4 roles, 316 types, 20 bools
security: 53 classes, 10711 rules
SELinux: Completing initialization.
SELinux: Setting up existing superblocks.
SELinux: initialized (dev hdf3, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), not configured for labeling
SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), not configured for labeling
SELinux: initialized (dev devpts, type devpts), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev eventpollfs, type eventpollfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev futexfs, type futexfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev pipefs, type pipefs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev sockfs, type sockfs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev bdev, type bdev), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev rootfs, type rootfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev sysfs, type sysfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0b.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
0000:02:0b.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xd480. Vers LK1.1.19
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:05.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:05.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940)
PrefPort:A RlmtMode:Check Link State
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
AC'97 0 analog subsections not ready
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 50557 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 185, pci mem 0xfebffc00
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 26 Oct 2004
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 209, io base 0xef00
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 217
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 217, io base 0xef20
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 169, io base 0xef40
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 209, io base 0xef80
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 225
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[225] MMIO=[feaff800-feafffff] Max Packet=[2048]
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0c.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 225
ohci1394: fw-host1: Unexpected PCI resource length of 1000!
ohci1394: fw-host1: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[225] MMIO=[feafe000-feafe7ff] Max Packet=[2048]
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00e0180000213a38]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[1-00:1023] GUID[00601d0014708c3a]
SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0329260(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6629 Wed Nov 3 13:12:51 PST 2004
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ibm_acpi: ec object not found
EXT3 FS on hdf3, internal journal
device-mapper: 4.3.0-ioctl (2004-09-30) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hdf1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev hdf1, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
Adding 2096472k swap on /dev/hdf2. Priority:-1 extents:1
SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, type binfmt_misc), uses genfs_contexts
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
Trying to free free DMA3
pnp: Device 00:09 disabled.
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8185 buckets, 65480 max) - 344 bytes per conntrack
eth1: network connection up using port A
speed: 100
autonegotiation: yes
duplex mode: full
flowctrl: symmetric
irq moderation: disabled
scatter-gather: enabled
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipefs), uses genfs_contexts
pnp: Device 00:09 activated.
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
lp0: console ready
eth1: network connection down
eth1: network connection up using port A
speed: 10
autonegotiation: yes
duplex mode: half
flowctrl: none
irq moderation: disabled
scatter-gather: enabled
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
application armyops-bin uses obsolete OSS audio interface
NVRM: failed to allocate page table
NVRM: failed to allocate page table
[runt@localhost ~]$

help

I have the day off so I'm going to keep working on this problem. I'll keep all of you posted on my progress. So far I have tried different media with no luck. I've used Maxell 8x and Sony 8x but neither works. I've done hundreds of searches and nothing helpful comes up. My neighbor knows a little bit about linux but he's in New Zealand for 3 months.

I tried a few different things but nothing seems to work.

are you using dvd-r dvd-rw dvd+r or dvd+rw media?

Thankyou, I am using dvd-r media.

OK, then you said you are using k3b..have you tried the command line burning tools to see if they work?

# dvdrecord dev=ATAPI --scanbus

# dvdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 /path-to-filename/filename

OR

growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /some/files

substitute /dev/dvd for whatever your dvd drive shows up as

You may have to install the dvd+rw-tools rpm to use growisofs

I am having a similiar problem here with a 716a plextor

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...72#post1425072

Thanks hkb33. growisofs works and I was able to burn a nice dvd using Memorex 8x dvd-r media.
Didn't work in dvdrecord though and gave me this response:

(as root)
# dvdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0, Old_PPC_Files
scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,'
devname: 'ATAPI'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Use of ATA is preferred over ATAPI.
Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained.
Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow.
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR '
Identifikation : 'DVDR PX-712A '
Revision : '1.05'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
cdrecord: Found DVD media: using cdr_mdvd.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
cdrecord: Drive does not support TAO recording.
cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive.

same problem with Plextor 716a, I've already posted an answer in this thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...72#post1425072
BTW is there any news about workaround on this problem?