[Pkg-libburnia-devel] Bug#652498: FATAL : Cannot reserve track of 7932674048 bytes

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

> READ TRACK INFORMATION
> 52 01 00 00 00 ff 00 00 14 00
> From drive: 20b
> 00 26 01 01 00 07 41 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3f b0 00

This reports that the Next Writable Address is 0 and that 0x3fb000
(=4173824) blocks are free.


> RESERVE TRACK
> 53 00 00 00 00 00 3b 1a 60 00
> xorriso : UPDATE : Thank you for being patient. Working since 1 seconds.
> [...]
> xorriso : UPDATE : Thank you for being patient. Working since 346 seconds.
> +++ key=3  asc=0Ch  ascq=00h   (346548 ms)

This command shall reserve 0x3b1a60 (= 3873376) blocks.
After the irregularly long time of 346 seconds it fails with the error
code for "Write Error".

Normally this is an indication for drive or medium problems.


> growisofs fails on the DVD+R/DL too

Do you see an indication of the failed MMC command and the error code
there ?


Is the medium still blank after the failure ?
  $ xorriso -outdev /dev/hda
  ...
  Media status : is blank
  ...

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You can avoid the RESERVE TRACK command by keeping xorriso from knowing
the size of your ISO image in advance:

  $ cat big.fat.iso | xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev=/dev/hda -eject -

It has to be feared that this will fail at some other command.
E.g. one of the WRITE commands which transfer the data to the drive.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas