On 17. August 2005 at 11:55AM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> csj wrote (Sunday 14 August 2005 10:38 pm): > > Brendon Lloyd Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Recently I upgraded my disc burner to a LiteOn SOHW-1693S Dual > > > Format Double Layer DVD burner. I've been trying it out but > > > I've run into problems trying to burn DVD+R discs. Of the 50 or > > > so tries so far (many with different discs, all from the same > > > manufacturer), only 4 have been successful. > > > > You should try blanks from a different manufacturer then. > > I may well do that, but isn't it weird that the same drive can > burn to those same discs fine in Windows but not Debian? Not at all. Most free software available for GNU/Linux is reverse-engineered. > > [...] > > > > Have you tried burning your DVD+Rs at the slowest available > > speed? > > Yes, it makes no difference at all. In my case, speed=1 helps. Allowing the drive to determine the burn speed results in discs which are partly unreadable in non-writer units. But then I don't have a dual-layer drive. I must have missed something. But do the failurs occur with dual-layer, single-layer or both types of DVD blanks? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
