Comment 95 for bug 228624

Hi Gunnar, I followed your instructions to disable X and hald. I was not able to burn a DVD:

$ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0=image.iso
:-( write failed: Input/output error

$ dmesg | tail -50
...(snip)...
[ 1108.402618] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[ 1108.402630] ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x45
[ 1108.402640] ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA
[ 1108.402655] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:40:b6:28:1a/00:00:00:00:00/e5 tag 0 dma 32768 in
[ 1108.402658] res 51/40:40:c2:28:1a/00:00:00:00:00/e5 Emask 0x9 (media error)
[ 1108.402665] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 1108.402670] ata1.00: error: { UNC }
[ 1108.425418] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66
[ 1108.440295] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/66
[ 1108.440337] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled sense code
[ 1108.440343] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 1108.440352] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor]
[ 1108.440362] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 1108.440367] 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 1108.440385] 05 1a 28 c2
[ 1108.440392] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
[ 1108.440404] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 05 1a 28 b6 00 00 40 00
[ 1108.440422] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 85600450
[ 1108.440472] ata1: EH complete

Details of the DVD writer as reported by lshw:

$ sudo lshw
...
           *-cdrom
                description: DVD writer
                product: DVD-RW DVR-107D
                vendor: PIONEER
                physical id: 1
                bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/cdrom2
                logical name: /dev/cdrw2
                logical name: /dev/dvd2
                logical name: /dev/dvdrw2
                logical name: /dev/scd0
                logical name: /dev/sr0
                version: 1.10
                capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
                configuration: ansiversion=5 status=ready
              *-medium
                   physical id: 0
                   logical name: /dev/cdrom2
...