Hi,
I just tried burning a 100 GB bluray disk with K3B and it failed after about 32 GBs written, with an error message “failed to fixate disc”. I haven’t made sense of all the information I could find yet, but just to be sure: Do I need growisofs for multi-layer BDs? I did not have it installed when writing the BD.
Another BD (single-layer, 25GB) I burned before was fine.
I burn 100GB BD (BD-TL) regularly with k3b, with growisofs as the underline burning application. Other burning utility can burn bd100, but have to generate a temp iso image, that I don’t like.
It seemed that your burning failed when the burner try to jump layer. Are you sure your burner supports BD100 burning?
You can install growisofs, and set up k3b to call it when burning, and try lowering burnning speed.
Thanks, yes, the burner should definitely support 100 GB discs. It’s a Verbatim “External Slimline Blu-ray Writer USB 3.1 GEN 1 with USB-C Connection”, the disc was a BDXL M-disc (also Verbatim, and the burner supports M-discs according to the product page).
I guess I will buy a non-M-disc (M-discs are kinda spendy) and try if it works with growisofs, it’s installed now. I’m still confused if growisofs is somehow a necessity for XL discs, because I didn’t create any special temp iso image in K3B and it didn’t give me a warning of any kind, but I’ll just try it out.
EDIT: Ok, untrue: K3B warned me about missing programs, I think growisofs was amongst them. I don’t get why I can still attempt to burn 100 GB XL discs then, but I guess that’s just a philosophy of putting the user in the driver seat (if growisofs is really mandatory for this).
For creating data projects, growisofs does not need to create temp image, and just burns the files to disc on the fly, while some other burning utilities do need temp image. That’s why I prefer k3b with growisofs.
As your burner is a usb-powered slim drive, beware of the power quality of the usbport.