On Thursday 28 September 2006 20:41, Carlos E. R. wrote:
No good. I burned 1 G of data from Nero 5, it did not complain, but the result was unreadable. Windows said it was "an audio track of 1.99 GB" but failed to play it. It says it is audio when it can not read it, anyway. Linux couldn't read it either. <snip> That was a DVD-RW dvd that worked. I tried again with a DVD+R, and failed.
Carlos E. R.
Is the DVD burner the only device on the IDE cable? I was fooled once by 2 CD devices on a single IDE cable, one a reader and one a burner. The burner wouldn't read/write audio CDs but data was just fine. I thought I had determined the burner device was toast and replaced it with a DVD burner. The DVD burner started failing on burning different formats than the CD burner! Pulled the CD reader off the cable and all was well with the DVD burner. Hooked up the 'bad' CD burner and both burners are still working fine. Customer needed a DVD drive anyway so they didn't mind which was fortunate for my wallet. And have you verified that your LG DVD drive is at the latest, greatest firmware? I've fixed some seemingly broken CD/DVD drives with firmware updates that added format capabilities or fixed reading/writing issues with specific formats. Stan