Need help, please, with burning DVDs

[Rei Shinozuka]

On 03/29/2011 01:48 PM, rikona wrote:
> Hello Basil,
>
> Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 6:24:53 AM, Basil wrote:
>
> BC>  I have been using k3b for years
>
> Me too - I rather like the pgm.
>
> BC>  to burn video DVDs both 4.7GB and 8.5GB without any problems -
> BC>  until this week:'( . I am using a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-110 burner
> BC>  which burns the full range of DVDs (except, of course, BluRay).
>
> One possibility is the drive is no good. I've had to replace quite a
> few drives, and are the most-replaced item on my boxes. [Stopped
> buying Sony after losing half a dozen drives with short lives.]
>
> Sometimes the symptoms can be quite odd. For example, a well-used
> drive on my linux box got flaky. I moved it to a win box and it worked
> fine. I was then sure the problem MUST be in the lin box and fiddled a
> lot to get it to work, with no results. I finally bought another one
> just like it on sale, installed it in the lin box, and it was fine.
> Never did figure out what kept k3b and that particular drive from
> getting along.
>
This was my first thought too.  I've replaced DVD writers in both Linux 
and Windoze machines--they often start getting flaky and then stop 
writing altogether.  (They frequently continue to read disks OK).  So I 
just make sure I have an extra drive.  They're $20 and easy to replace.

-rei