Comment 54 for bug 15424

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paul cooke (paul-cooke100) wrote : Re: [Bug 15424] Re: Error while burning DVD-RWs: Input/output error

On Friday 15 February 2008 07:36, alanbshepard70 wrote:
> I'm getting the same errors. I only get the error when burning to a
> DVD-R/+R, DVD-RW discs burn normally. When burning a disc after a reboot
> the first DVD normally burns fine but the next time I try to burn a disc
> I get the error. This has caused me to waste 15 DVDs so far. I hope this
> gets fixed soon.

I had a similar problem with coasters on the second and subsequent burns when
burning CDs... I discovered that reenabling DMA for that drive using hdparm
after each burn would allow me to burn more than one without having to keep
rebooting.

below is the command line I use to reenable DMA for the drive I burn with...

sudo hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdd