Burning backup to dvd
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jul 26 16:17:29 UTC 2006
Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:56, Ed Kim wrote:
>> Ed Kim wrote:
>>> Can you attempt to use a different DVD media? in the past, when I have
>>> seen cdrecord spit,
>>>
>>> Disk type: unknown dye (reserved id code)
>>>
>>> A change in media manufacturers or a double check on +R/-R capabilities
>>> and disc types does the trick.
> The disk I had been working with was a TDK 1-16x DVD-R disk. Interestingly,
> these disks work without a problem on my stand-alone Lite-On hardware
> recorder, yet give endless problems on my daughter's, which is the same model
> and age.
>
> I found one Imation DVD-R and issued the burn command again, and to my
> surprise it burned immediately. The burn area looks about the right size,
> too, but I can't read it. I'm guessing that it's not fixed. Do you think
> that's it?
I've only ever seen that with DVD+R media before. I fixate those with
cdrecord:
# cdrecord -v -fix
Paul.
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