On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Andre Robatino wrote: > > I believe that most mediacheck failures are caused by the readahead > bug (although years ago I found that Memorex CDs were so crappy that > they would literally sometimes go from pass to fail in about 15 hours > after burning). Memorex did go through a bqad patch, which I understand was due to the fact that they used more than one supplier, of which at least one had less-than-adequate quality control. I don't think there is a problem now. > I know that some drives (either DVD or CD) are > vulnerable and some aren't. Not all older drive support burn-free, which could be one factor. Another thing to consider. I was told by Lite-On technical support people that DVD+R disks are more forgiving than DVD-R. I have certainly had fewer problems on my stand-alone recorder since changing to +R. > Whether the DVD is RW or just R may also > matter - as mentioned before I had the problem burning to a DVD+RW using > growisofs (and I have enough experience with the media in question to > know that its stability wasn't the problem). But burning to a DVD+R > with growisofs seemed to work ok (though it could just have been luck). > When F7 comes out I'll try growisofs with the DVD+R and cross my > fingers. If that doesn't work I'll try finding a newer version of > cdrecord and see if that works. I'd be interested in knowing if anyone > out there can currently burn DVDs using the version of cdrecord in > either FC6 or F7t4, and whether or not it spews error messages. Yes, I've burned many DVDs under FC6. I use K3B, and have no problem at all. Anne
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