Burning backup to dvd - Last word
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jul 28 14:13:07 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 23:14 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 27 July 2006 19:38, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Although I can only speculate why.
> >
> > My new disks didn't arrive today, and I haven't yet ordered the new drive,
> > so not expecting any success I stuck in a once-used DVD-RW disk and fired
> > up k3b. I set it to burn at 2x and verify. 'All files seem binary equal'
> > - and it reads in konqueror on this box.
> >
> > So - disk format? Possibly. Burn speed? I think I'm backing that in the
> > light of previous experiences.
> >
> > Thanks to all the people who tried so hard to help me. I think I'll
> > probably still get a new drive, though.
> >
> I realise now that the disk that did burn correctly was not a DVD-R, but a
> DVD+R. Previously the drive had burned either type. I have tried several -R
> and -RW disks in k3b, and k3b did not recognise any of them. (The one that
> apparently burned from cdrecord/command-line yet could not be read is a
> separate mystery.) I have now burned another backup onto a DVD-RW disk.
>
> So, it seems that either k3b, cdrecord, or the drive, no longer will accept -R
> or 0RW disks.
>
> Anne
cdrecord -prcap
will display all this informaation on the capabilities of your DVD
drive.
--
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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