On Friday 28 July 2006 11:06, Tony Nelson wrote: >At 3:35 PM +0100 7/28/06, Anne Wilson wrote: >>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! > >No. Cdrecord has no knowledge of DVD+Plus, won't list it, and can't >actually burn it. I suspect that some drives attempt to translate > DVD-Dash commands to burn Plus media if that's what's in the drive, > which would be why it seems to work in some cases. Which probably goes a long way toward explaining the occasional failure I've had. I have both types of media on the shelf ATM. >Growisofs does know about DVD+Plus. For Plus media one should use >growisofs and not cdrecord. Ok, I'll buy that, but where do we configure k3b to guarantee that? >>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 :-) I have one too, was all enthused, till I priced the media... A 4 to 6x price premium? Nahhh... >Most current drives are double-layer, and growisofs supports them. Be >careful what you pick up, though, as stores often have a mix of brand new >and years-old drives. Look at the date on the drive. Plan on updating > its bios when you get it home. -- 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.
