Burning backup to dvd

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 26 July 2006 18:14, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 5:47 PM +0100 7/26/06, Anne Wilson wrote:
>  ...
>
> >It looks as though the media was at least part of the problem.  Changing
> > to a different brand disk got me a complete burn, no error messages
> > whatsoever. However, I find I cannot read the disk.  It is not
> > automounting.  For a manual mount, is the type iso9660?
> >
> >dmesg|tail
> >cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
> >
> >Doesn't look good
>
> Can the disk be read at all?
>
>     # dd if=/dev/dvd of=/dev/null bs=2048 count=10000000
>
1+0 records in
1+0 records out

If that refers to one track, that should be OK.

> That should read as many blocks as written.  If it fails after 1 block,
> well, I've seen that but don't know a cure other than not to use cdrecord
> for DVD+Plus.

The disk was DVD-R.

Anne
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