At 10:55 12/11/2004, you wrote:
> On Thursday 11 November 2004 15:58, Kevin Philp wrote:
> My home computer has an NEC DVD writer. I don't use it very often but when I
> first got it I used it to burn a backup DVD of my system. It worked just
> fine. Yesterday I tried to get it working with my new Gentoo
> installation but
> K3B (which uses growisofs) just complains it doesn't recognise the media. It
> allowed me to format the disk but not to wirte to it. I tried several disks
>On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:06:11 +0000, Kevin Philp <kevin at cybercolloids.net>
>wrote:
> Replying to my own message here! Last night I tried burning a CD and it
> worked
> fine. It seems to be just the DVD+RW side of things. Has anybdy any feel for
> the likelyhood of cheap DVD+RW media being duff? Is this a common
> experience?
> or should I continue looking at the hardware/software?
Ignore the brand, check the atip on the discs, if they are CMC Magnetics,
Ritek more than likely they are crap.
You need to go for Taiyo Yuden manufactured blanks.
Frank
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