[lug] growisofs w/Plextor 740A

[Hugh Brown]

> What is leading me toward a defective drive conclusion is the
> following.  If I initialize a disk it takes about two minutes with all
> but maybe 10 seconds of that time spent on the "/dev/scd0: writing
> lead-out" part.  On a nearly identical machine I have here it takes
> about 15 seconds to initialize a disk and only a few seconds are spent
> on the "/dev/scd0: writing lead-out" part.  Based on on this and
> everything else I've tried it seems that drive is having problems
> writing.  Since I get good results locally with the same hardware and
> software versions I'm thinking the drive has problems.  Oh, I have tried
> different disks in the problem machine, but they are all Sony brand.
>
> Gary


I'd try swapping the DVD drives in the two machines and see if the
problems follow the drive (if that's possible).  Anything in
/var/log/messages coincident with the disc writing?

Hugh