Wodim unable to write on DL DVD Drive

[JD]

On 03/31/2013 09:14 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 01/04/13 01:11, JD wrote:
>>
>> On 03/30/2013 10:00 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>> On 31/03/13 07:17, JD wrote:
>>>> Hi, I have a DL 16X DVD drive, loaded with
>>>> a Kodak DL DVD+R blank disk.
>>>> I have no problems burning 4.3GB media. ButWodim
>>>> chokes on DL media.
>>>
>>> [pruned]
>>>
>>> You don't mention how old the drive is nor how old your version of 
>>> the OS you have.
>>>
>>> Some time ago - a couple of years or so - I had absolutely zero 
>>> chance of burning a DL. I could burn a 4.3GB +R and -R discs but not 
>>> a +R DL disc. (BTW, I always use k3b to burn my discs.)
>>>
>>> It turned out that at that time k3b just did not like the DL+R 
>>> discs. No way jose would it burn a +R DL disc.
>>>
>>> However, when I inserted a -R DL disc it burnt it without a whimper.
>>>
>>> Have you tried burning a -R DL disc? You never know......
>>>
>>> (BTW, that problem with not burning +R DL discs has now been 
>>> resolved and I can burn +/- R dual and single layer discs.)
>>>
>>> BC
>>>
>>> PS You do have the correct codecs installed, right?
>>>
>> Ubuntu 12.10 - latest updates
>> K3b: 2.0.2 (it also failed)
>> Wodim 1.1.11
>> So, +R should work??
>> I will look for -R DL media locally.
>> Maybe a wodim or k3b developer will see this and offer some insight.
>
> If k3b is 2.0.2 then it shouldn't be affected by what I stated above.
>
> But there one other thing which may help.
>
> Only a few minutes ago I had to burn an iso file (with k3b) and it 
> kept failing in that it k3b kept asking me to insert a blank disc. But 
> after I had inserted several of them I still got that message :-( . It 
> finally dawned on me what was wrong as it happened before :-) .
>
> k3b is pretty smart, you see, and it checks to see if the size of the 
> disc is big enough to accept the data to be written to it. What I kept 
> inserting was a CD which was too small for the 702MB of data to be 
> burnt. But it all worked when I fed it a 4.3GB blank DVD :-) .
>
> Any of this apply to your situation?
>
> BC
>
I wish it did :)
Would have been easy to solve.
I just ordered a small number of DL DVD-R media
and will try this when I get them in a few days.
Local stores near me did not have them.
Will post results then.