On Friday 28 July 2006 01:30, Anne Wilson wrote: >On Friday 28 July 2006 02:35, Tony Nelson wrote: >> 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. > >Too true. And the hassle of installing windows just to do that is simply > not worth it. But thanks for the suggestion > I did the firmware update to an older drive a couple of years ago, and surprise of surprises, I didn't tell it I was using windows. The drive went on for another 3 or 4 months before the laser finally died. At the time, all that was required was to copy the file to the drive & I think I used something like "dd if=filenameofupdatedfirmware of=/dev/hdc". I didn't really expect it to work, the drive was already acting funkity, but it did. Too bad my shell history isn't infinite. :( >Anne -- 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.
