Philips DVD =/- RW SDVD8441 firmware PA48 & PA49 fails to complete disk burning.

[bedfojo]

I have an Acer Aspire 3613WLMi laptop with a PHILIPS 'DVD+-RW SDVD8441 DVD/CD burner. The firmware is updated to revision PA49.

On trying to burn a CD (e.g. the ubuntu .iso) it appears to work to a certain percentage then reports that burning fails. This happens every time.

Windows XP on the same machine will successfully burn the same file using NTI software.

[bedfojo (bedfojo)]

dmesg.log

[bedfojo (bedfojo)]

lspci-vv.log

[bedfojo (bedfojo)]

lspci-vvnn.log

[bedfojo (bedfojo)]

Output from wodim check

[bedfojo (bedfojo)]

gnomebaker error messages attached.

For info uname-a gives:
Linux ... 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Goedson Teixeira Paixão (goedson)]

Does burning this image using nautilus-cd-burner or wodim on the command
line works? Judging by the contents of the error messages provided, this seems
to be a bug in wodim.

[Nicholas Stack (nickstack)]

On a Gateway MX6440 note that I have PA49 version of the firmware. I have burned DVDs and CDs in the past on this machine... I think it would have been in the days of the 7.x series of Ubuntu. It will fail after a certain point in the burning... normally its 75% or more in but it has occurred at under 5%. The disks are fine, and disks from the same package, and even the same disk (+RWs) will burn just find in my desktop with a BENQ DW1620.

Please let me know what other information I can provide you with to help get this issue resolved.

hdparm -i /dev/scd0

/dev/scd0:

 Model=PHILIPS DVD+/-RW SDVD8441 , FwRev=PA48 , SerialNo=
 Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic }
 RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0
 (maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0
 IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2
 AdvancedPM=no

 * signifies the current active mode

$ uname -r
2.6.27-7-generic

[Nicholas Stack (nickstack)]

Possible work around mentioned in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/109211 .

Possible related bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/76058 [ SDVD8441 is mentioned as not completing burns].

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

why is this a brasero issue? looks like a deeper issue like the one mentioned in the previous comment.

[bedfojo (bedfojo)]

I must confess to a workaround: I replaced the drive, so cannot comment any further on this bug!

[wolfger (wolfger)]

Marking this bug invalid across the board per the above comment. Bug reporter no longer has the hardware for a hardware-specific bug. If anybody else can replicate this bug on this hardware, please reopen.