Bad media or FC5 doesn't like DVD+R

[Steven Pasternak]

Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Friday June 16 2006 21:27, Steven Pasternak wrote:
>   
>> Hi! I have two machines running FC5, both with DVD+-RW burners. Neither
>> work with k3b and complain about i/o errors. One machine has M$ XPsp2
>> with nero 6 and can burn them. Is the media weird or does
>> fedora/k3b/linux-in-general just not like DVD+R?
>> Thanks!
>> -Steven
>>     
> Turned the speed down from 8x to 4x and I burn fine.  Sometimes speed kills,  
> K3B tried to write at 8.Xx sorry don't remember what the decimal value was 
> but I think K3Bs calculation of the speed was a bit high.
>
>   
Turning it down to 1x worked. It wasn't too bad, but k3b was saying that 
it was going 5x. Was it reading in CD-write speed or DVD-write speed. I 
know that 1x DVD is a LOT more that 1x CD.