There is a particular Samsung model of DVD burner that has problems
with Ubuntu. I went through two brand new drives. After all the
troubleshooting and such, it was a link to the specific hardware.
Switched to an LG model and everything worked great. This was about 1
or 2 years ago now though.
On 11-08-03 08:21 AM, Gustin Johnson wrote:
That DVD age is only valid for pressed DVDs. Burned CDs and DVDs last
for much less.
It might also be a bad batch of DVDs. I have had the occasional
defective spindle.
With the cost of DVD drives these days, I can't imagine that the
quality is there. It would not surprise me if the drive itself has
failed.
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:52 AM, John Jardine<[email protected]> wrote:
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
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