Burning backup to dvd
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Wed Jul 26 22:04:11 UTC 2006
At 6:36 PM +0100 7/26/06, Anne Wilson wrote:
>Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4424972.hzFbrLCteO";
> protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>On Wednesday 26 July 2006 18:14, Tony Nelson wrote:
>> At 5:47 PM +0100 7/26/06, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> >It looks as though the media was at least part of the problem. Changing
>> > to a different brand disk got me a complete burn, no error messages
>> > whatsoever. However, I find I cannot read the disk. It is not
>> > automounting. For a manual mount, is the type iso9660?
>> >
>> >dmesg|tail
>> >cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
>> >
>> >Doesn't look good
>>
>> Can the disk be read at all?
>>
>> # dd if=/dev/dvd of=/dev/null bs=2048 count=10000000
>>
>1+0 records in
>1+0 records out
>
>If that refers to one track, that should be OK.
Nope, 1 record (2048 bytes). DD knows not of tracks.
>> That should read as many blocks as written. If it fails after 1 block,
>> well, I've seen that but don't know a cure other than not to use cdrecord
>> for DVD+Plus.
>
>The disk was DVD-R.
Well, it isn't burned right. Try again to close it? That hasn't worked
for me on DVD-Plus media burned with cdrecord, though I have successfully
burned DVD-Dash media with cdrecord. I normally use growisofs, without
problems.
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