Burning backup to dvd - Last word
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Jul 28 08:40:50 UTC 2006
On Friday 28 July 2006 01:30, Anne Wilson wrote:
>On Friday 28 July 2006 02:35, Tony Nelson wrote:
>> At 11:14 PM +0100 7/27/06, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> >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.
>>
>> FWIW, you might try to upgrade the drive's firmware. Such updates are
>> needed for new media, and also bugs, etc. This usually requires
>> MSWindows.
>
>Too true. And the hassle of installing windows just to do that is simply
> not worth it. But thanks for the suggestion
>
I did the firmware update to an older drive a couple of years ago, and
surprise of surprises, I didn't tell it I was using windows. The drive
went on for another 3 or 4 months before the laser finally died. At the
time, all that was required was to copy the file to the drive & I think I
used something like "dd if=filenameofupdatedfirmware of=/dev/hdc". I
didn't really expect it to work, the drive was already acting funkity, but
it did. Too bad my shell history isn't infinite. :(
>Anne
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