[Dvdrtools-users] dvdrecord, "write track data: error"

[Chris Szilagyi]

I was wondering if anybody knows of a solution to a problem when
dvdrecord reports errors such as "Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment
0" and "write track data: error after 4176304128 bytes".  We are writing
data DVD's that have a high number of little files placed within 40
folders or so (120,000 total files) per disc.  All have worked fine
except for one disc where we get this error every time.  We are first
writing the ISO image, then burning that straight to disc on an external
USB burner (LaCie burner but is actually a Pioneer DVR-A04 drive).   The
entire output from dvdrecord on the problematic disc is included below.
Thanks for all help!

Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
trackno=0
BURN-Free is ON.
Performing OPC...
Sending CUE sheet...
dvdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 3982 of 4292 MB written (fifo 100%).dvdrecord: Input/output
error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 1F 1D AB 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 04 00 1F 1A D0 0E 00 00 00 00 44 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x44 Qual 0x00 (internal target failure) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 2038480 (not valid)
cmd finished after 2.841s timeout 200s
write track data: error after 4176304128 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Writing  time: 4698.980s
Fixating...
Fixating time:    0.011s
dvdrecord: fifo had 65845 puts and 65782 gets.
dvdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 65389 times full, min fill was
70%.