At 11:14 PM +0100 7/27/06, Anne Wilson wrote: ... >I realise now that the disk that did burn correctly was not a DVD-R, but a >DVD+R. Previously the drive had burned either type. I have tried several -R >and -RW disks in k3b, and k3b did not recognise any of them. (The one that >apparently burned from cdrecord/command-line yet could not be read is a >separate mystery.) I have now burned another backup onto a DVD-RW disk. > >So, it seems that either k3b, cdrecord, or the drive, no longer will >accept -R >or 0RW disks. FWIW, you might try to upgrade the drive's firmware. Such updates are needed for new media, and also bugs, etc. This usually requires MSWindows. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>