On Friday 28 July 2006 15:13, Aaron Konstam wrote: > 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. > > That should have said 'onto a DVD+RW' disk. Sorry, it was very late by then. > > So, it seems that either k3b, cdrecord, or the drive, no longer will > > accept -R or 0RW disks. or -RW disks. > > cdrecord -prcap >. > will display all this informaation on the capabilities of your DVD > drive. > That's very interesting. It says that the drive can burn DVDs up to 6x. The only format of DVD that it claims to write is DVD-R - the very one that was giving me problems. DVD+R and DVD+RW are not mentioned at all. The drive must be older than I thought! It looks as though most drives offered now are double-layer. I presume that they are generally supported? I don't see myself writing double-layer for some time :-) Anne
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