Re: DVD newbie - which format should I use?

2005-12-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I got reports from a user who has good performance with hda > and 1.0x performance with hdb as data source for burning > to hdc. No deeper reason known. The disks are identical. > > There are reports about slow growisofs if fed by a pipe > (not for me.) But you wrote abo

Re: DVD newbie - which format should I use?

2005-12-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are those who argue that DVD-RAM is the only useful one for > backups, "because it was designed as a backup format". It does give you > more or less unlimited overwrites, has the advantage of treating your > media as a read-write harddisk (no mast

Re: DVD newbie - which format should I use?

2005-12-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I've tried to search the archive and various FAQs but I more confused > than before. > > I've just bought my first DVD burner (LG GSA-4167B) which supports > several DVD formats. I've burnt my first DVD-R disc which succeeded > but a bit slow. cdr

Re: DVD newbie - which format should I use?

2005-12-18 Thread scdbackup
Hi, > Helmut Jarausch wrote: > I've tried to search the archive and various FAQs but I more confused > than before. This impression represents the current state of the art. Expect any weird behavior of firmware and media. > DVD burner (LG GSA-4167B) [...] which media (format) should I use. I

Re: DVD newbie - which format should I use?

2005-12-18 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> but a bit slow. cdrecordProDVD reported "DMA speed to slow) (OK for 8x) > but then the average write speed was only 1.5x ( for a chunk of 3.6Gb). > Is there any explanation for this? Check DMA is turned on for the drive. Where did the image data come from? There can be problems with pipes, beca

DVD newbie - which format should I use?

2005-12-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've tried to search the archive and various FAQs but I more confused than before. I've just bought my first DVD burner (LG GSA-4167B) which supports several DVD formats. I've burnt my first DVD-R disc which succeeded but a bit slow. cdrecordProDVD reported "DMA speed to slow) (OK for 8x) but