[ale] DVD Burning

[Dow Hurst]

I ran into a pack of bad media, or at least the LaCie 2x firewire 
external burner wouldn't burn the media reliably.  Maybe two out of the 
ten disks were good.  Also, the Dell Precision workstations come with 
two different DVD burner types, NEC and TEAC, and both need firmware 
updates to work with 4x media.  They are 8x burners though.

So, unless you have good media, up to date firmware, and possibly the 
latest version of your burning tool, you could easily run into problems 
from my perspective.  I've found an IDE based internal LaCie 4x drive 
was very reliable on Memorex 4x media (50 pack).  We never had a disk 
that was bad after burning using that combo.  It is just hard to find 
the same hardware 6 months to a year later!
Dow


Christopher Fowler wrote:

>I've got many DVD burners under Linux and I'm seeing an issue that I can
>not fix.  Sometimes when I burn a DVD everything looks good.  Cdrecord
>is not having issues.  It looks as if the burn went well.  When I try to
>mount the DVD it appears as if nothing is on it.  Is this media
>related?  Why would there not be some indication of error?
>
>Chris
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