On Friday 18 Mar 2005 15:26, Ian wrote: > On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: > > Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. > > > > Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? > > I'm afraid I haven't had any DVD blanks that didn't work. I presume that's > down to the drive and not the software............. > The drive I use is the 16 speed NEC with dual layer burning as well. I > can't vouch for the dual layer part, but I notice that K3B normally shows > as dual layer capacity until I actually put the blank into the drive. > I've used pretty much whatever is cheapest at the stockist I use and have > had no problems (coasters). I could say that most drives appreciate Ritek > dye disks, though. The Liteon I had before the Nec definitely preferred > ritek dye disks, but again, although burning slower generally on other > dyes, didn't produce coasters. Maybe I've just been lucky :-)
Also, burning at less than maximum speed for your drive is always a good idea. As a rule of thumb, burn at 1/2 its stated speed. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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