On Monday 13 November 2006 07:13, Anne Wilson wrote: >On Monday 13 November 2006 09:26, Anne Wilson wrote: >> On Monday 13 November 2006 05:25, Jeff Vian wrote: >> > Since DVDRW drives (16X dual layer) sell for about $50 - $70 just >> > about anywhere why not replace it? >> >> I plan to replace my writer soon. Is dual-layer writing supported >> yet? Or do we continue for the moment with single-layer? > >Having later read the thread 'Burning a backup to DVD-DL' I see that it > is supported. Sorry for wasting bandwidth. > >Anne Yes, and there is another, even longer thread detailing the failures when those disks were to be used as a bare metal recovery. IIRC Ric Moore was in the middle of that, or the victim maybe. I just installed a new burner myself, DL & LightScribe capable. But I was rather disappointed to find that Lacie's lightscribe drivers take around 23 minutes to burn a best quality image (that isn't best quality at the src, ntsc video snapshot stolen from the wedding). The just under a gig wedding video on the shiney side was only a 4-5 minute job. But, after 5 months, I finally got that job done & Dee will deliver the disks this noon-time. I'm under the impression that mkisofs, which is used by growisofs, may still have a 4GB filesize limit, in which case the DL disks will probably be coasters. I haven't personally tried it yet, lost the incentive when the LightScribe drive in my lappy was destroyed by the first use of 4L-gui. HP will replace it, but I've not been back to town since the replacement drive came in. -- Cheers, Gene
