Burning backup to dvd - Last word

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Thu Jul 27 22:14:06 UTC 2006


On Thursday 27 July 2006 19:38, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Although I can only speculate why.
>
> My new disks didn't arrive today, and I haven't yet ordered the new drive,
> so not expecting any success I stuck in a once-used DVD-RW disk and fired
> up k3b.  I set it to burn at 2x and verify.  'All files seem binary equal'
> - and it reads in konqueror on this box.
>
> So - disk format?  Possibly.  Burn speed?  I think I'm backing that in the
> light of previous experiences.
>
> Thanks to all the people who tried so hard to help me.  I think I'll
> probably still get a new drive, though.
>
I realise now that the disk that did burn correctly was not a DVD-R, but a 
DVD+R.  Previously the drive had burned either type.  I have tried several -R 
and -RW disks in k3b, and k3b did not recognise any of them.  (The one that 
apparently burned from cdrecord/command-line yet could not be read is a 
separate mystery.)  I have now burned another backup onto a DVD-RW disk.

So, it seems that either k3b, cdrecord, or the drive, no longer will accept -R 
or 0RW disks.

Anne
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