Burning DVDs

[Jean-Rene Cormier]

On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 06:45 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:30 +0200, Colin Brace wrote:
> > Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
> > 
> > >This is something that's been bugging me for a while, when I burn DVDs
> > >on my FC4 (was FC3 before) box I can't read them on my IBM laptop that's
> > >running WinXP. I burned the FC3 and FC4 DVD ISOs from that box and I can
> > >read them fine from the laptop but anything else doesn't seem to work.
> > >
> > >I tried creating ISOs with mkisofs and burning them through cdrecord and
> > >using K3B to burn stuff and I get the same results. Is there something I
> > >should know when burning DVDs?
> > >  
> > >
> > I encountered a similar problem with my laptop (not an IBM), and it 
> > turned out that its slimline DVD drive could only read DVD R+ disks, not 
> > DVD R- disks. Just an idea.
> 
> Isn't it the other way around? My two ThinkPads 600E and T40 only reads
> DVD-R not DVD+R. 

I doubt it's a DVD-R/+r thing, I tried one DVD-R I burned in my Dell
laptop and it couldn't read it either, also tried it in my roommate's
computer, his DVD drive couldn't read it but his DVD burner (which is
the same as mine) could. Though both laptop can read the FC3 and FC4
DVD-Rs I burned with that same burner and the DVD-Rs came from the same
package. I'll try a DVD-RW to see what it does.

-- 
Jean-Rene Cormier <jrc at jrcormier.com>