I have not had the same problems burning CD/DVDs you've been having. I've burned "lots" using my laptop and "many" using my desktop, other than the odd coaster I haven't had any issues.
If you are burning disks for backups it may be cheaper & more effective to buy 3 flash drives as backup media and just rotate your usage. Walmart is pretty much giving away 4GB flash drives, they're pretty cheap almost everywhere. Media lifetimes: DVDs: Up to 100 years Flash: 10 years References: http://www.taperesources.com/dvd_media.html https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/USB_flash_drive On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 23:41 -0600, Ralph Boland wrote: > I recently tried to burn a DVD (this used to work). > I first ran the simulator which indicated that burning > was OK but finalizing failed (what is finalizing anyway?). > > I was running Ubuntu 10.10 at the time so I upgraded to > Ubuntu 11.04 and tried again with a different DVD. > Again the finalization failed during the simulation. > > So I tried burning for real hoping the problem was with the > simulation but the real burn failed during finalization as > predicted. > > I am guessing the problem is with the burner. > I bought my desktop computer from Memory Express about a year > and a half ago so the warranty has expired. I have only burned > about half a dozen CDs/DVDs with the burner. > The burner of my previous computer also failed after burning about > half a dozen CDs a year for about 2 years. > Do anybody else have problems with failing CD/DVD burners? > > I plan to bring my DVD burner, a couple of DVDs, and a flash drive > with the data I want backed up. > > I am hoping > a) Someone can burn my data onto a DVD. > b) Someone can take my DVD burner (+ DVD) and install it in a > different computer > and verify that it doesn't work. There's no rush on this as I > don't plan to burn > another DVD for a few months (I backup onto a flash drive > between DVD backups). > > If my burner is dead (again) then I think I will just buy a portable > hard drive and use that > for backups. Not as convenient to move off site though. > > Comments on my negative experiences with burners on Linux welcome > > Regards, > > Ralph (Rocky) Boland > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
