On Friday 28 July 2006 13:37, Tony Nelson wrote: >At 12:51 PM -0400 7/28/06, Gene Heskett wrote: >>On Friday 28 July 2006 11:06, Tony Nelson wrote: >>>At 3:35 PM +0100 7/28/06, Anne Wilson wrote: >>>>On Friday 28 July 2006 15:13, Aaron Konstam wrote: >>>>> On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 23:14 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: >>>>> > On Thursday 27 July 2006 19:38, Anne Wilson wrote: [...] >>>>> cdrecord -prcap >>>>>. >>>>> will display all this informaation on the capabilities of your DVD >>>>> drive. >>>> >>>>That's very interesting. It says that the drive can burn DVDs up to >>>> 6x. The only format of DVD that it claims to write is DVD-R - the >>>> very one that was giving me problems. DVD+R and DVD+RW are not >>>> mentioned at all. The drive must be older than I thought! >>> >>>No. Cdrecord has no knowledge of DVD+Plus, won't list it, and can't >>>actually burn it. I suspect that some drives attempt to translate >>> DVD-Dash commands to burn Plus media if that's what's in the drive, >>> which would be why it seems to work in some cases. >> >>Which probably goes a long way toward explaining the occasional failure >>I've had. I have both types of media on the shelf ATM. >> >>>Growisofs does know about DVD+Plus. For Plus media one should use >>>growisofs and not cdrecord. >> >>Ok, I'll buy that, but where do we configure k3b to guarantee that? > > ... > >I don't know. I don't know if k3b can use growisofs at all. I don't use >the GUI wrappers for burning CDs or DVDs, as burning seems problematic >enough that the wrappers cannot be trustworthy. I use the growisofs >command line for DVDs, and the cdrecord command line for CDs. I save the >commands I've used in a file with some comments, so I can use them again >later. Tony; I've, generally speaking, found k3b to be at least as dependable as the drive. This drive has made one cdrom coaster, and 2 dvd coasters in about 250 burns since it went in, and I couldn't begin to duplicate that performance from the cli. And its even a long in the tooth version of k3b nowadays. k3b-0.11.14, from a kde 3.3.0 build by konstruct. 99% of the time it Just Works(TM). -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
