How to burn Fedora DVDs to avoid readahead bug?

[Andre Robatino]

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