On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 23:14 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 27 July 2006 19:38, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Although I can only speculate why. > > > > My new disks didn't arrive today, and I haven't yet ordered the new drive, > > so not expecting any success I stuck in a once-used DVD-RW disk and fired > > up k3b. I set it to burn at 2x and verify. 'All files seem binary equal' > > - and it reads in konqueror on this box. > > > > So - disk format? Possibly. Burn speed? I think I'm backing that in the > > light of previous experiences. > > > > Thanks to all the people who tried so hard to help me. I think I'll > > probably still get a new drive, though. > > > 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. > > Anne cdrecord -prcap will display all this informaation on the capabilities of your DVD drive. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
