cannot burn dvd: "PERFORM OPC failed"

[Rafal Zawadzki]

When I try to burn dvd I get below errors. I got benq dvd drive.

bluszcz@akira:~$ growisofs -speed=2 -Z /dev/hdc=various/iso/69.iso
Executing 'builtin_dd if=various/iso/69.iso of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0'
:-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=4h/ASC=09h/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error
bluszcz@akira:~$ grep BENQ /var/log/dmesg
[ 19.488711] hdc: BENQ DVD LS DW1655, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
bluszcz@akira:~$

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Can you check that the media hasn't gone bad?

[Rafal Zawadzki (bluszcz)]

I checked it with 4 kinds of dvd media (DVD-R), all of them fault. With cd there is no any problem.

[Adapted.Cat (adapted-cat)]

I have a similar BENQ DVD drive, and an identical problem:
hdc: ATAPI DVD DD 2X16X4X16, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)

In addition, lots of people seem to have this problem with plextor drives.
The hack/fix suggested here worked for me:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=1758695#post1758695

Since the code immediately above it is trying to parse the command output for error conditions, I'm guessing that this is some non-error condition that is flagged as though it were an error.

Hope this helps!

[Rafal Zawadzki (bluszcz)]

In my case i had broken dvd drive.

[Kip Warner (kip)]

I just had the same problem trying to burn a 7GB ISO to a blank dual layer DVD-R.