Re: DVD: can't burn dual layer or at > 4x

2005-06-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Can't find my original thread re: this problem, but this is close. > > I was having all sorts of errors trying to burn 8x media @ 8x. The burn would > be physically bad, with blank bands, scorches, etc. Below that, they were > fine, and 16x media worked @ 16x. I thought I'd tried everything,

Re: DVD: can't burn dual layer or at > 4x

2005-06-07 Thread Brian Pack
Can't find my original thread re: this problem, but this is close. I was having all sorts of errors trying to burn 8x media @ 8x. The burn would be physically bad, with blank bands, scorches, etc. Below that, they were fine, and 16x media worked @ 16x. I thought I'd tried everything, different

Re: DVD: can't burn dual layer or at > 4x

2004-12-11 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 11 2004, Andrew Schulman wrote: > $ cdrecord dev=ATAPI:/dev/dvd -prcap Please, bear in mind that I don't have a DVD burner. Anyway, if I am not mistaken remembering what Jens Axboe said, you should use dev=/dev/dvd instead of dev=ATAPI:/dev/dvd to access your drive. This is the way that I'

DVD: can't burn dual layer or at > 4x

2004-12-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
I have an NEC ND-3500AG DVD burner. The mfr specs say it can burn single layer DVDs (-R, +R) at 16x, and dual layer DVDs at 4x. But so far I can't get any burn speed above 4x, and I can't burn dual layer at all. I mainly use K3b for burning, but have fooled around a bit with cdrecord and growiso

Re: DVD: can't burn dual layer or at > 4x

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Saturday, December 11, 2004 01:46 -0500 Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <...> (1) Is the burn speed restriction a limitation of the current ATA implementation (libata?)? Related to the "no DMA" warning? Yes. In PIO mode you'll be lucky to push more than 1800kbyte/sec, and your