dvd writer speed

[Martin Duclos]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:52:38AM -0400, Martin Duclos wrote:
 > I suppose I never mentionned why I wanted to burn at slower speed. What's
 > been happening is on dual layer dvd, when burned at 4X will reliably 
create
 > a coaster every single time. I tried a few disks because at first I 
though
 > I ran into a bad one. After 3 tries I started thinking I had a problem. I
 > had an older drive that would burn the dl dvd fine but i replaced it with 
a
 > lightscribe capable drive. I since dropped that older dvd drive on the
 > floor and it doesn't work anymore.

I had one box of media that burned really badly.  Updated the drive
firmware to the latest version, and suddenly every burn was perfect on
that media.

So check that your drive is running the latest firmware.

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Len Sorensen
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I did update the firmware to the latest version. To me it looks like the 
firmware doesn't recognize the media. For some reason, it won't listen when 
I say write at a slower speed. Anyhow, I bought a LiteOn drive and installed 
it. DL DVD burn fine now and it does burn at the speed I tell it to (2.4X) 
even if it does suggest to write at 4X. Not the ideal solution.

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