I recently tried to burn a DVD (this used to work).
I first ran the simulator which indicated that burning
was OK but finalizing failed (what is finalizing anyway?).
I was running Ubuntu 10.10 at the time so I upgraded to
Ubuntu 11.04 and tried again with a different DVD.
Again the finalization failed during the simulation.
So I tried burning for real hoping the problem was with the
simulation but the real burn failed during finalization as
predicted.
I am guessing the problem is with the burner.
I bought my desktop computer from Memory Express about a year
and a half ago so the warranty has expired. I have only burned
about half a dozen CDs/DVDs with the burner.
The burner of my previous computer also failed after burning about
half a dozen CDs a year for about 2 years.
Do anybody else have problems with failing CD/DVD burners?
I plan to bring my DVD burner, a couple of DVDs, and a flash drive
with the data I want backed up.
I am hoping
a) Someone can burn my data onto a DVD.
b) Someone can take my DVD burner (+ DVD) and install it in a
different computer
and verify that it doesn't work. There's no rush on this as I
don't plan to burn
another DVD for a few months (I backup onto a flash drive
between DVD backups).
If my burner is dead (again) then I think I will just buy a portable
hard drive and use that
for backups. Not as convenient to move off site though.
Comments on my negative experiences with burners on Linux welcome
Regards,
Ralph (Rocky) Boland
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