Re: Burning ISOs
On 2/26/06, Dariusz J. Garbowski <thuforuk(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On 02/26/2006 04:08 PM, Ben Steeves wrote:
>DVDs are sadly another matter, but even then my
> failure rate has been about 5-8%, not too shabby really, and that was
> on an older DVD burner.
I've had mixed results with DVD burning due to questionable media
quality. The moment I switched to Taiyo Yuden-based Verbatims I have
100% success rate! Make sure you buy good quality media (e.g. not all
Verbatims are good either!) -- see "Blank Media & Quality FAQ"
Ironically, with my older LG single-layer burner, I burned a lot more
DVD coasters with brand-name Memorex discs than I did with no-name
discs. On my new Samsung dual-layer burner, I haven't burned any
coasters* except when something external happened (like droping the X
server out from under the shell running the burn -- accidentally of
course :-).
*with single-layer media, that is. I have yet to try dual-layer media.
PS: I use growisofs from the command line for all my DVD burning
needs, and cdrecord for CD burning (also from the shell). I don't
need no steenkin' GUI. :-)
Ben
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