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Command Line disc burning: growisofs fails to write DVD

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I've successfully burned CDs from .iso images with wodim, but using this:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sg1=ImageToBurn.iso

fails with:

Executing 'builtin_dd if=ImageToBurn.iso of=/dev/sg1 obs=32k seek=0'

:-( write failed: Illegal seek

Brasero seems to work just fine in GUI; am I missing a library? is the command wrong?

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answered 1 Year ago torlim · Accepted Answer

I found the same thing happened to me when I tried your command.

Nevertheless, I believe you will find that the following command will work:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvdrw=ImageToBurn.iso

In Ubuntu, /dev/dvdrw should be equivalent to /dev/sr0, which is a block device. /dev/sg1 is a character mode device for the generic SCSI interface, and that must not be the way growisofs interacts with the dvd device (a seek is normally an operation on a block device).