DVD-RW can't copy good DVDs

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Hi there people,
It looks like I have a bizarre problem - I can’t copy many DVDs to local HD. It copies around 20% and then gives the message :: “could not read file/media…”.
I know disks could be bad, so I tried to use another computer (using WinXP) to copy the **** DVD and the disks copied fine !!!
I used K3b to write the disks and the disks also passed the verification phase.

What I have ::
ASUS DRW-1608P3S
openSuse 10.3

It might be a problem related to whitespace, since the DVD is named “LoslesS 20”, but I don’t know how to circumvent it if this is the case…
Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

Thanks.

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Anyone? Please help…

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On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 20:06 +0000, 696 wrote:
> Hi there people,
> It looks like I have a bizarre problem - I can’t copy many DVDs to
> local HD. It copies around 20% and then gives the message :: “could not
> read file/media…”.
> I know disks could be bad, so I tried to use another computer (using
> WinXP) to copy the **** DVD and the disks copied fine !!!
> I used K3b to write the disks and the disks also passed the
> verification phase.
>
> What I have ::
> ASUS DRW-1608P3S
> openSuse 10.3
>
> It might be a problem related to whitespace, since the DVD is named
> “LoslesS 20”, but I don’t know how to circumvent it if this is the
> case…
> Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

Have not see the problem. What does “copy” mean? Can you be
specific? Is it possible for you to do the copy from the
command line somehow to avoid any k3b-isms? Need more
info before anything can be said…

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Ok, thanks for the reply.
I’m trying to put the contents of many DVDs on a local HD.
And no, I haven’t tried the commend line option. I guess that should be cp?

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Hello to everyone again,

I am at my wits end…
One bizarre message I receive when I try to copy using the cp command ::

cp: reading ‘filename’ Input/output error.

Anyone, any ideas?

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Sounds like a bad drive. Have you tried swapping the DVD drive for another one? If the broken peripherals I throw out when I fix/reassemble old computers, CD and DVD drives are the largest proportion. They seem to fail more easily than anything else. Next are hard drives. Then all sorts of plugin cards and motherboards. Then one or two dead CPUs. I’ve never managed to kill a CPU by accident.

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OK, thanks for your suggestion.
I’m gonna check it out and see if it works.

I’ll be back with the conclusion.

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Are those DVDs data or video? What is the DVD writer brand/model?
It works ok in windows but not in linux? Are the disks dirty/scratched? DMA is enabled? (see man hdparm for more info)