Bad media or FC5 doesn't like DVD+R

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 21:44 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Friday June 16 2006 21:27, Steven Pasternak wrote:
> > Hi! I have two machines running FC5, both with DVD+-RW burners. Neither
> > work with k3b and complain about i/o errors. One machine has M$ XPsp2
> > with nero 6 and can burn them. Is the media weird or does
> > fedora/k3b/linux-in-general just not like DVD+R?
> > Thanks!
> > -Steven
> Turned the speed down from 8x to 4x and I burn fine.  Sometimes speed kills,  
> K3B tried to write at 8.Xx sorry don't remember what the decimal value was 
> but I think K3Bs calculation of the speed was a bit high.
> 
If you run cdrecord -prcap  you will get the capabilities of you CD and
DVD reader and writer. You will find I think that DVD writing has to be
done much slower than CD writing.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>