Apologies for the elementary questions, but I'm a bit slow to change (smile).
In designing my new machine, I assumed that I would simply transfer
the CD drive from the existing box to the new one,
but (1) the new mobo seems to have only SATA sockets
& (2) CD drives seem to be going the same way as
On Monday 20 Aug 2012 11:21:39 Philip Webb wrote:
> Apologies for the elementary questions, but I'm a bit slow to change
> (smile).
>
> In designing my new machine, I assumed that I would simply transfer
> the CD drive from the existing box to the new one,
> but (1) the new mobo seems to have only
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:19:23 +0100, Mick wrote:
> Given your adoption rate of new technology I suggest you consider
> buying a BluRay player if not recorder, because I don't know how long
> it will be before DVDs become obsolete too. Unfortunately BluRay
> devices were out of my price range last
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:19:23 +0100, Mick wrote:
>
> > Given your adoption rate of new technology I suggest you consider
> > buying a BluRay player if not recorder, because I don't know how long
> > it will be before DVDs become obsolete too. Unfortunately BluRay
> > device
>> (1) do I need to configure the kernel to find the drive ?
It's basically handled exactly the same as a CD drive, so you need the
same configuration options you would use for that.
> Yes. As a minimum have a look at BLK_DEV_SR and BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR. You may
> also need SCSI_PROC_FS for legac
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 20 Aug 2012 11:21:39 Philip Webb wrote:
>> Apologies for the elementary questions, but I'm a bit slow to change
>> (smile).
>>
>> In designing my new machine, I assumed that I would simply transfer
>> the CD drive from the existing box to th
Andrea Conti wrote:
> As for the standards, if you're just burning backups they're basically
> equivalent. The +RW standard is theoretically more flexible as media can
> be formatted in a "packet" mode which allows (almost) random r/w access,
> but in my experience software support and reliabilit
Michael Mol wrote:
> Along comes the DVD+R format. The DVD+R format has some variances in
> *how* data is represented on disc, but to the player that doesn't know
> any better, it looks just like any other DVD. The big difference DVD+R
> brought was that the 'book type' field was burnable on any
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Joerg Schilling
wrote:
> Michael Mol wrote:
>
>> Along comes the DVD+R format. The DVD+R format has some variances in
>> *how* data is represented on disc, but to the player that doesn't know
>> any better, it looks just like any other DVD. The big difference DVD+
On Aug 20, 2012 7:47 PM, "Andrea Conti" wrote:
>
[snip]
> >
> > Yes, +RW, -RW, but don't know much more on this other than older DVD
writers
> > would only do one format not another and if you didn't pay attention to
the
> > specification/limitations of your hardware you could end up buying the
Michael Mol wrote:
> I alluded to this in my description of DVD-R. Thank you for correcting
> my description of implementation details, though. (Obviously, you
> don't need a special burner, but you do need to buy specially-licensed
> media.)
Well, if you manage to get unwritten DVD- media, you
On Aug 20, 2012 8:51 PM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 20, 2012 7:47 PM, "Andrea Conti" wrote:
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> > >
> > > Yes, +RW, -RW, but don't know much more on this other than older DVD
writers
> > > would only do one format not another and if you didn't pay attention
to the
> > > spe
Pandu Poluan wrote:
> +RW *can* be erased, or else it won't be called RW :-)
Not it definitely can't.
You just may overwrite it.
Jörg
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Joerg Schilling
wrote:
> Michael Mol wrote:
>
>> I alluded to this in my description of DVD-R. Thank you for correcting
>> my description of implementation details, though. (Obviously, you
>> don't need a special burner, but you do need to buy specially-licensed
>
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Joerg Schilling
wrote:
> Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
>> +RW *can* be erased, or else it won't be called RW :-)
>
> Not it definitely can't.
>
> You just may overwrite it.
Communications issue: You guys are talking about different encoding layers.
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2012/8/20 Philip Webb :
> Apologies for the elementary questions, but I'm a bit slow to change (smile).
>
> In designing my new machine, I assumed that I would simply transfer
> the CD drive from the existing box to the new one,
> but (1) the new mobo seems to have only SATA sockets
> & (2) CD driv
Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2012 8:51 PM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Aug 20, 2012 7:47 PM, "Andrea Conti" wrote:
> > +RW *can* be erased, or else it won't be called RW :-)
> >
> > That said, the difference is much deeper than differing metadata. Among
> which :
> >
> > * +RW use
Michael Mol wrote:
> > I did give these arguments: There are variouy problems media compatibility
> > of
> > you use DVD+ with different drives.
>
> Your description runs counter to my experience. But that's not
> terribly surprising; there will of course be players which won't
> handle DVD+ med
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
> Apologies for the elementary questions, but I'm a bit slow to change (smile).
>
> In designing my new machine, I assumed that I would simply transfer
> the CD drive from the existing box to the new one,
> but (1) the new mobo seems to have only
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Joerg Schilling
wrote:
> Michael Mol wrote:
>
>> > I did give these arguments: There are variouy problems media compatibility
>> > of
>> > you use DVD+ with different drives.
>>
>> Your description runs counter to my experience. But that's not
>> terribly surpri
Michael Mol wrote:
> Walk into any old store and buy a $15-$30 drive. Most burners these
> days support burning CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM.
> Writing dual-layer discs is slightly less common, but still cheap and
> easy to get.
Looking at the pile of writers I have at home, there
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Joerg Schilling
wrote:
> Michael Mol wrote:
>
>> Walk into any old store and buy a $15-$30 drive. Most burners these
>> days support burning CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM.
>> Writing dual-layer discs is slightly less common, but still cheap and
>> ea
On Aug 20, 2012 10:12 PM, "Joerg Schilling" <
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>
> Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
> > On Aug 20, 2012 8:51 PM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Aug 20, 2012 7:47 PM, "Andrea Conti" wrote:
>
> > > +RW *can* be erased, or else it won't be called RW :-)
>
microcai wrote:
> 2012/8/20 Philip Webb :
>
>> (2) what software do Gentoo users use to read/write DVDs ?
> k3b is a good one
>
If you don't use KDE or Gnome, try this one:
app-cdr/tkdvd
It's simple but it worked last time I tried it.
Dale
:-) :-)
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 06:21:39AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote
> so I'm now planning to buy a new DVD drive & to start using DVDs.
> I wb using them only for back-ups, not playing music or videos.
>
> This looks like a good enough item :
> ASUS DRW-24B1ST 24x SATA Black R 48x W 8x OEM : CAD 24,99
Am Montag, 20. August 2012, 23:12:14 schrieb Pandu Poluan:
> On Aug 20, 2012 10:12 PM, "Joerg Schilling" <
>
> joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> > Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > > On Aug 20, 2012 8:51 PM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote:
> > > > On Aug 20, 2012 7:47 PM, "Andrea Conti" wrote:
> > > >
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> hm, I also had much besser results with + media. +rw and +r.
I always get the + stuff too. No problems so far. < knock on wood >
Dale
:-) :-)
P. S. I knocked to hard. Now my head hurts. LOL
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Dale wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> hm, I also had much besser results with + media. +rw and +r.
>
> I always get the + stuff too. No problems so far. < knock on wood >
If it's turning into a survey, these are what I use:
Sony/NEC Optiarc drive with bi
Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Dale wrote:
>> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>> hm, I also had much besser results with + media. +rw and +r.
>> I always get the + stuff too. No problems so far. < knock on wood >
> If it's turning into a survey, these are what I use:
>
> Son
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