[Off Topic] Burning DVDs

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 00:30 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I'm trying to burn a DVD for installing FC3.  I've downloaded
> FC3-i386-DVD.iso using BitTorrent; it checks OK comparing the
> accompanying md5 file MD5SUM.
> 
> I've tried to burn a DVD using k3b; so far I've made 4 such DVDs. 
> Unfortunately, these DVDs are all bad.  K3b indicates a comparison
> failure, and invoking "linux mediacheck" on booting from the DVD
> indicates the same thing.  Some of the DVDs won't boot at all.
> 
> The CD/DVD drive is a LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S.  The DVD blanks are
> Memorex 4X DVD-R.  K3b was running in "Auto" speed burning some DVDs and
> in "4x" speed burning others.
> 
> Does anyone know what the problem might be?  Any idea on how to cure
> it?  Different brand of DVD blanks?  Clean the drive?  Whatever?

I have the exact same model of DVD burner running on FC3 with no issues.
I've burned a stack of 25 FC3 DVDs using TDK 4x DVD+R media with no
problems so far.

I did notice a number of issues burning CDs and DVDs on FC2 just before
I switched over to FC3 (which I did at Test3). This was particularly
true when running K3B - it just acted outright "goofy" at times. It
could be something there. K3B seems much more stable on FC3 though. I'll
be switching over to Memorex 8X DVD+R media shortly and will post if I
run into any troubles.

Sorry I couldn't help more, but perhaps my info will jog someone else's
memory or at least get you headed in the right direction.

Cheers,

Chris


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