On Aug 14 2005, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote: > Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote (Wednesday 10 August 2005 10:50 am): > > Do note that the problem only seems to be with DVD+R discs. CD-R, > > CD-RW, and DVD+RW writing is fine (although consistently slower than > > advertised, this is probably a different issue altogether). I have no > > DVD-R/RW media to test, so I have no idea if they fair any better. > > Really? No-one has any ideas?
I was just going to ask you if you had problems with DVD+RW media, but, then, I saw that you said it was fine. My DVD writer is an HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B (according to dmesg) and it works fine with DVD-R media, but has some troubles with DVD-RW media (I would tell you to avoid that, based on my experience). Perhaps I had bad luck with the media that I used (two brands, can't remember their names), but sometimes the DVD writer wouldn't even recognize that there was a disc inserted. Anyway, just out of curiosity: are you able to read all the DVD discs that you burn on regular computer or standalone drives? I have only had success when using DVD-R media, not with the other variants (DVD+RW or DVD-RW; I don't have DVD+R media). I'm carbon copying this to debian-powerpc because I am quite curious to know if *ONLY* the superdrive equipped notebooks are able to read all meddia or if all the current-selling models (including the cheaper combo drive models) can read such media. My iBook's combo drive (it's an iBook 600MHz, Late 2001 model) has problems even with some DVD-R media that was spec'ed to be burnt in 8x, which is a bit frustrating. :-( Thanks in advance for any comments, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
