Hi, i wrote: > > (You aren't using olde IDE disk and burner as master and > > slave at the same controller, are you ?)
do...@mail.com wrote: > I may be a newbie, But how does a newbie know about PATA and master-slave ? :)) > Can you point me to any particularly good sources where I might learn > the differences between DVD+R and DVD-R. The specs are in MMC-5, but not easy to put together to a usable procedure. DVD+R gets at least a sketch at 4.3.6.2.2 "The Host's Perspective". I wrote my own cheat sheet http://libburnia-project.org/browser/libburn/trunk/doc/cookbook.txt where DVD-R handling is described under "Sequential DVD-R[W] Cookbook" and DVD+R under "DVD+R[/DL] Cookbook" The main difference is that for DVD-R the drive gets sent a Mode Page 5, like for CD-R. DVD+R need less preparation before writing can begin. But no Mode Page 5 also means no dummy write mode is possible with DVD+R. Not described by SCSI are the physical differences which seem to become decisive when drives begin to show first symptoms of failure. That's why i proposed to try a different media type. If that works it would be a limited remedy and it would make clear that the drive is beginning to lose its capability to burn DVD-R. The long term remedy would then be to get a new drive. Have a nice day :) Thomas
