On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 21:44 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote: > On Friday June 16 2006 21:27, Steven Pasternak wrote: > > Hi! I have two machines running FC5, both with DVD+-RW burners. Neither > > work with k3b and complain about i/o errors. One machine has M$ XPsp2 > > with nero 6 and can burn them. Is the media weird or does > > fedora/k3b/linux-in-general just not like DVD+R? > > Thanks! > > -Steven > Turned the speed down from 8x to 4x and I burn fine. Sometimes speed kills, > K3B tried to write at 8.Xx sorry don't remember what the decimal value was > but I think K3Bs calculation of the speed was a bit high. > If you run cdrecord -prcap you will get the capabilities of you CD and DVD reader and writer. You will find I think that DVD writing has to be done much slower than CD writing. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
