How to burn Fedora DVDs to avoid readahead bug?
Andre Robatino
andre at bwh.harvard.edu
Wed May 9 14:55:56 UTC 2007
Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 13:39 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>
>> Another thing to consider. I was told by Lite-On technical support
>> people that DVD+R disks are more forgiving than DVD-R. I have
>> certainly had fewer problems on my stand-alone recorder since changing
>> to +R.
>>
>
> According to the spiel about it, the wiggle to the track on the +R discs
> means that the laser can very easily find its location, and can start
> and stop burning at will. Contrarily, the -R discs have a simple spiral
> that's harder to track, and write stop and starts involve padding the
> ending and new start with something that's not data (so it can't do it
> instantly).
>
> Think of it like driving a car blindly. You can either keep bouncing
> off the sides of the road, trying to keep in the middle. Or have rumble
> strips that run under the edges of your tires all the time that you're
> on track.
>
> I just wish they'd sorted themselves out before foisting two different
> standards on us, and that they'd build better drives.
>
>
http://www.cdfreaks.com/reviews/Why-DVDRW-is-superior-to-DVD-RW
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