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when will dvd burn/verify issue be resolved.

Asked by wbryan01

This appears to be a linux kernel issue.
Kernel for ubuntu 7.10 was ok
Kernel for ubuntu 8.04 and since has several DVD bugs in them.
the sympton is:
you burn a dvd with k3b, the burn is valid but when k3b does a verify - it fails.
If you are burning an iso file, you have the original iso and you can do
a sum on the iso and the dvd to verify that the burn was successful.
So the iso and the dvd are the same, but when burning k3b says that
verify failed.

from discussions, this appears to be a kernal issue, not k3b.
there was a fix mentioned for x86 code, but the fix did not fix
the AMD code.

I was looking to find out:
  has if it has been fixed for AMD code?
  what verisions of ubuntu now have the fixed code ( if fixed )

Right now, I have to burn with windows to burn reliably.
( sorry but true )
I have reloaded 7.10, but it has/had several other issues
that make it 'unusable' for my tastes.
so I am interested to see when this will be fixed.

thank you

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Best Simon Déziel (sdeziel) said : 		#1

I would suggest you to update your Ubuntu version because Ubuntu 7.10 is no longer supported. 8.04 and higher are supported. I would suggest you to give a try to Ubuntu Jaunty (current latest stable) or even Ubuntu Karmic (current development release due on at the end of October).

I think that K3b is still the default CD burning application in Kubuntu but in Ubuntu flavour it's now replaced by Brasero. Brasero works well and I never had issue with CD validation.

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wbryan01 (wbryan01) said : 		#2

8.04 has the problem.
9.04 has a worse problem - burn is invalid.
By the info that I have read in problem descriptions, ubuntu support people know that 8.04 - 9.04
  all have burning problems.
( 7.10 was the last release that DID NOT have the problem - and worked )
This is a known kernal issue, even Fedora tickets talk about this problem as well ( and they have
   the same problem, since the kernal is shared between all linux builds.
Even Fedora people know about it being in Ubuntu.

So, the only way that I can see that the kernel gets fixed. That means that either 9.10 fixes it.
Or there is a kernal fix is given for a pre-9.10 release.
So, if possible, can someone tell me if this will be fixed ( or has been fixed ) and if so, what
version will have the fix.
If not, Ok. I will just have to live with it.