Greetings all,
At the weekend I got an unbranded DVD writer - I was in a local electronics shop, it
was on offer very cheap. I have *a lot* of data to archive, and it seems like a
bargain...
Claims to support + and - RW writing.
(The retail box is marked PIKA ONE, but the drive itself is
Rob,
Fiddled about with hdparm in case my DMA settings were a
problem, no better.
I hope that means that you saw that DMA was on. You want DMA,
and if the
DMA doesn't come on by itself, it sometimes means it will
have problems
(my DVD-104 needed an update to 1.40 firmware before
From: Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The manpage of cdrecord says:
The default is to turn BURN-Free off, regardless of the
defaults of the drive.
What is the rationale for doing that? Shouldn't burn-free be turned on
by default, or at least be let untouched by cdrecord to
From: Florian Lindauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is a firware update to 1.03 for the Plextor 708A. I applied it on mine
and it's Ok so far.
-Dyson
I know of this, but according to what I read about it it did not
add too many new media. I would update if I did not have to
use DOS/Win for this.
I just asked Plextor for the neexed info. Lets see what happens...
Pleased to hear that :)
I just sent a mail (see below) to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe some more people reading this list can send similar requests?
Not all of you have a Plextor, but you can duplicate and send to
other manufacturers
Yup. Asked for 1 - reported 4. But I think on a fail it probably isn't true?
Still, the drive and the media are both spec'd to support 4x writing, so that in
itself shouldn't be an issue I guess, anyway.
My experience with DMA is that having it off can seriously stuff the
kernel's time
If you continue to repeat the marketing lies from the DVD+ alliance, nobody
would believe you.
Perhaps the DVD+- are telling lies about each other, wouldn't be surprising.
If you believe that DVD+ is able to do things DVD- can't so please name these
features.
Going by my own observation and
Greetings all,
At the weekend I got an unbranded DVD writer - I was in a local electronics
shop, it was on offer very cheap. I have *a lot* of data to archive, and it
seems like a bargain...
Claims to support + and - RW writing.
(The retail box is marked PIKA ONE, but the drive itself is
MacArthur, Ian (UK) wrote:
Greetings all,
At the weekend I got an unbranded DVD writer - I was in a local electronics shop, it was on offer very cheap. I have *a lot* of data to archive, and it seems like a bargain...
Claims to support + and - RW writing.
(The retail box is marked PIKA ONE, but
Rob,
Fiddled about with hdparm in case my DMA settings were a
problem, no better.
I hope that means that you saw that DMA was on. You want DMA,
and if the
DMA doesn't come on by itself, it sometimes means it will
have problems
(my DVD-104 needed an update to 1.40 firmware before
From: Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you like to buy a single format writer, buy DVD-, it is standard has less
readibility problems
As you keep on propagating this nonsense (one might also call it FUD),
for the record: DVD+ isn't any less standard than DVD-. Anyone can call
themselves
From: Florian Lindauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is a firware update to 1.03 for the Plextor 708A. I applied it on mine
and it's Ok so far.
-Dyson
I know of this, but according to what I read about it it did not
add too many new media. I would update if I did not have to
use DOS/Win for this.
From: MacArthur, Ian (UK) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At the weekend I got an unbranded DVD writer - I was in a local electronics
shop, it was on offer very cheap. I have *a lot* of data to archive, and it
seems like a bargain...
Claims to support + and - RW writing.
(The retail box is marked PIKA ONE,
I just asked Plextor for the neexed info. Lets see what happens...
Pleased to hear that :)
I just sent a mail (see below) to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe some more people reading this list can send similar requests?
Not all of you have a Plextor, but you can duplicate and send to
other manufacturers
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