On Monday 13 March 2006 13:16, Paul Howarth wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 13 March 2006 08:00, Paul Howarth wrote: >>>cdrecord -prcap >> >> Thanks for the cluex4 Paul. The response I get to that command, >> confirms that my drive, a >> >> LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1673S >> >> does not do DVD+RW disks, and thats what I have on the shelf, bought >> for a previous LITE-ON drive that did do them. So I have about 45 >> unusable disks unless the poster who said he could use them by >> manually fixating them can post his method to do so. > >That was me too, but it was for DVD+R media, not DVD+RW. > ># cdrecord -v -fix > >Paul. Paul; Getting curious like that famous cat, I just put one of those +RW dvd's in the tray, opened k3b, selected 'new data dvd project' (or whatever it says there) clicked on the open file dialog, found my 2.3GB music dir, and drag-n-dropped it into the left hand panel of k3b. It took a survey and showed me a half filled disk bar, I clicked on 'burn', growisofs was reported to being used against a DVD+RW disk, it started the burn a few seconds later, and about 8 minutes later I reclosed the drawer on the now warm disk, found a shell, mounted it, and voila! It looks like its all there, with absolutely no hassle of any kind. I hadn't tried to burn a dvd since I'd put this drive in. The last time I tried it with the older drive, also a LITE-ON 410 IIRC, it had failed 3 disks in a row, and I'd given up. But then it quit doing CD's too, gradually doing such a light burn that you couldn't see where the burn ended. Such is the life of a laser I guess. Seemed to me like it shoulda burnt more than the about 100 CD's it did burn though... I hope this LITE-ON lasts better than the last one. Does anyone know if this drive does dual layer too? Its an SOHW-1673S. And hasn't been flashed. Straight out of the box. -- 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.
