Burning backup to dvd

[Chong Yu Meng]

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 12:38 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 27 July 2006 04:12, Tim wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 17:47 +0100, 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?
> >
> > It depends on how you created the disc.  Have you tried udf as the type?
> >
> >
> That also returns 'No medium found'.

Hi Anne,

I suspect that the problem may have nothing to do with the media or the
way you are executing the growisofs or cdrecord commands. I encountered
the same problems not too long ago, and it turned out to be my DVD drive
that was causing all the problems. I hadn't used the drive in slightly
over a year, and when I tried to burn a DVD on it a couple months ago, I
was getting no medium found, insufficient space error messages, etc.
Almost exactly the same problems you are facing now. I'm not sure if
cleaning the drive is any good. As one list member suggested, as a last
"test" I had taken a hammer to the drive, for wasting more than a week
of my time, the last three DVD disks (coasters now) that I had, and
worst of all, making me doubt the evidence of my eyes. Rather than carry
on experimenting, I'd actually recommend that you buy a new drive -- it
may save your sanity!

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