[RESOLVED - MAYBE] [UPDATE} Need help, please, with burning DVDs

[Pongo A. Pan]

On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 20:21 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> >
> > But then the wheels fell off (well, almost) :-( .
> >
> > When I went to burn discs #5 and #6 the burn went to the end but then 
> > I got the 'normal' error messages with the first being "Unable to 
> > fixate the disc" :-( . However, the drive did NOT lock up AND the DVDs 
> > actually play normally!
> >
> > So, I don't know what the heck is going on and why.
> >
> > I spent some time yesterday going around trying to find a new burner 
> > but had no luck so ordered one online from "my favourite shop" which 
> > is interstate. Installing this brand new unit tomorrow will show if it 
> > is the device or some fiddle in Ubuntu/k3b.
> 
> Well, a new, "untouched by human hands", DVDRW (a Pioneer DDVR-118) 
> installed today and I burnt a DVD -R DL. Same result as I mentioned for 
> discs #5 & #6 above: "Unable to fixate the disk" :-( . So, it's not the 
> device but either k3b or some Ubuntu upgrade which was put thru in the 
> last 2 weeks. Back to the drawing-board.

Coming very late to this party, but:

Have you changed the connecting cable?

Have you tried burning with another OS installed on the computer (even
temporarily) or with one on a usb or liveCD?

Have you tried using wodim directly?  AFAIK k3b, brasaro, etc., are just
front ends for wodim.  Man wodim has lots of debugging hints.  I haven't
needed it since the days when it was called cdrecord, but it looks
interesting.

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