Blue Ray Disks (BD-R, 25 GB) are not recognized as acceptable recordable disks, neither for data disk creation nor for burning an ISO file.
Hi, under the assumption that your Brasero is configured to use libburn, it is me who is responsible for the lower levels of drive operation. I propose we discuss the problem on that lower level first in order to either find a bug of libburn or to tell Brasero maintainers what Brasero is supposed to do. (Can it be that 2.30.3 is quite old ? Too old for BD ?) For the inspection, get xorriso, - either from Debian "testing" - or as tarball from http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso-1.2.4.tar.gz To be built by tar xzf xorriso-1.2.4.tar.gz cd xorriso-1.2.4 ./configure && make Usable within the xorriso-1.2.4 directory without installation as xorriso/xorriso instead of just "xorriso" as with the Debian package. Then let xorriso inspect the medium. Assuming that the drive address is /dev/sr0, do: xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -toc This should report something like Drive current: -outdev '/dev/sr0' Drive type : vendor 'Optiarc' product 'BD RW BD-5300S' revision '1.04' Media current: BD-R sequential recording Media product: MEI/RA1/1 , Panasonic Corporation Media status : is blank Media blocks : 0 readable , 12219392 writable , 12219392 overall Media summary: 0 sessions, 0 data blocks, 0 data, 23.3g free If it does, then you would need to install a newer version of Brasero for which we can find a source code repository. With some forth and back it should be possible to find out why it does not recognize libburn's readiness to deal with the medium. If xorriso does not report like abve, then execute again with verbous SCSI command log: xorriso -report_about debug -scsi_log on -outdev /dev/sr0 -toc 2>&1 \ | tee -i /tmp/xorriso.log The content of file /tmp/xorriso.log would be of interest. Have a nice day :) Thomas
Hi, One should not even use it with DVD. This one is supposed to use libburn as backend. At least http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xfburn says so. In that case, xorriso should work fine too. So you should next bring your Brasero to a version which has a chance to get the attention of maintainers. Maybe it already does BD by miracle. http://git.gnome.org/browse/brasero/tree/?id=BRASERO_2_30_3 had its last update in 2010. I see in http://git.gnome.org/browse/brasero/tree/libbrasero-burn/brasero-burn-dialog.c?id=BRASERO_2_30_3 a distinction of BRASERO_MEDIUM_FILE, BRASERO_MEDIUM_DVD, BRASERO_MEDIUM_CD but no BRASERO_MEDIUM_BD or alike. Although there is a BRASERO_MEDIUM_BD in http://git.gnome.org/browse/brasero/tree/libbrasero-media/brasero-media.h.in?id=BRASERO_2_30_3 Ok for me. But not on the Debian bug tracker. :)) Have a nice day :) Thomas
Hi, I have looked for newer Brasero versions, and Testing has one: 3.4.1-4. Unfortunately, it cannot be installed without changing literally everything (the list is several pages long). Can you think of any other way for me upgrade to a newer Brasero version? Best wishes, Axel
Hi, I do not use Brasero or other GUI frontends (except my emerging xorriso-tcltk, which is more a proof-of-concept than an end-user tool). It is usable without importing half a new operating system. And one can write mails about the actual activities without the need for sending screenshots or describing a GUI session with all forth and back. It is also the reason why a known Brasero bug persisted for two years: The people who could have fixed it were all on older systems, and those who had the newer buggy version had no burner experience. Finally one of the latter found the bad commit by bisection experiments, and i was able to spot the fault in that code change. Since then i google daily for "brasero cd dvd" in order to learn about new problems which give my libraries a bad name. I should add "bd" now. Have a nice day :) Thomas
Hi, Actually, I quite agree with you. I just have not found a command-line tool that is convenient enough to use. I need: - data CDs / DVDs / BDs - audio or mixed CDs - sometimes bootable DVDs / CDs Can you give me a hint about good tools? Oh, and there is one more thing I am looking: a tool to use Lightscribe. I am rather surprised there are no programmes at all for this purpose in Debian. Cheers, Axel
Hi, Well, convenience is a relative thing. I could offer you xorriso. http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso It is entirely specialized on ISO 9660 filesystems which it puts onto optical media or into disk files. Many distros have it in package "libisoburn", because its implementation is part of that library. I could offer cdrskin for pure audio. Mixed CDs need CD-XA format. For that you will have to resort to cdrecord or wodim. xorriso produces the installation ISO images for Debian and Ubuntu. It is the ISO producer used by GRUB2 tool grub-mkrescue. Afaik, they all use it by its mkisofs emulation interface, to ease their migration from mkisofs. The capabilities of xorriso surpass those of mkisofs when it comes to modern hybrid layouts of bootable ISO 9660. suitable media. Also it looks miserably inferior to printable media, which are easy to purchase and allow color printing. The reason for no support in Debian is possibly in the license agreements like on http://www.lightscribe.com/downloadSection/linux/index.aspx?id=816 HP skillfully avoids to disclose the SCSI commands by which the burner is told what to do. But that would be the base for me being interested in implementing it. That said, did you already try this one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qlscribe/ Have a nice day :) Thomas
Dear Maintainer, xorriso output: ../xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -tocGNU xorriso 1.2.4 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project. Drive current: -outdev '/dev/sr0' Media current: BD-R sequential recording Media status : is blank Media summary: 0 sessions, 0 data blocks, 0 data, 23.3g free Drive current: -outdev '/dev/sr0' Drive type : vendor 'HL-DT-ST' product 'BD-RE WH14NS40' revision '1.00' Media current: BD-R sequential recording Media product: OTCBDR00/002/0 , (not found in manufacturer list) Media status : is blank Media blocks : 0 readable , 12219392 writable , 12219392 overall Media summary: 0 sessions, 0 data blocks, 0 data, 23.3g free but I still cant use brasero or k3b to burn the debian bdrom. Its still detecting a "too small" disc.