On Wednesday 23 June 2004 14:30, Frank Smith wrote:
>--On Wednesday, June 23, 2004 13:56:27 -0400 Gene Heskett
<gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:
>> Greetings all;
>>
>> I'm back from a week out in Nebraska, getting a son married off.
>> I hope that you didn't get too many bounces as my mailbox was full
>> when I got X running again, which had died due to my changing the
>> default prompt in bash, which in turn screwed up the X startup, it
>> would get to the mouse intialization, report success in the log,
>> but hang at that point with no further disk activity.
>>
>> Anyway, on arrival here, it appears my 2nd tape drive in as many
>> months is in the process of dying.
>>
>> I recently bought a DVD+-RW, drive and a 25 pack of +- media.
>>
>> While its burnt several cdr's just fine, the media I have appear
>> to not be compatible with cdrecord unless I buy the
>> cdrecord-DVDPro version from Jeorg. I probably can, the $ is not
>> a huge problem.
>>
>> What I'd like from this group is some pointers on setting up the
>> use of this dvd drive as a 4.7GB tape equivalent. I'd be glad to
>> be somebodies "guinea pig" :-)
>
>Be sure to verify what you burn. My experience in burning data DVDs
>is limited to a set of 26 DVDs I made to move 120+GB of data between
>locations (a high latency high bandwith data transfer). Of the 26
>discs, 22 were read just fine, the other 4 had read errors on parts
>of the discs. If I skipped over the file(s) involved I could read
>the remainder of the disc, but each one of those bad discs had 10s
> of MBs of unrecoverable data, Fortunately I was able to rsync from
> the original server to complete the data transfer, but that
> wouldn't have been possible if I had needed to do a recover from
> those DVDs. I don't know if it was bad media or a buffer underrun
> while burning, but the original burns completed without any
> indication of problems (xcdroast with cdrecord). YMMV, but I would
> be sure to do extensive testing before relying on it for backups.
> With video, minor data loss just results in barely noticable
> dropped frames or nois, but with data it can be catastophic. I
> would suggest running amverify on every run, at least until you
> build some confidence in your burning.
>
>My $.02,
>Frank
Thanks Frank. I've now made 2 dvd's from unwritten dirs in the /dumps
assign, using a recent k3b (11-11), but I've not figured out how to
turn on the burnproof yet, and the burn screen isn't showing me
buffer status, like there isn't any, and the drive claims to have a
2Mb buffer.
>> --
>> Cheers, Gene
>> There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot,
>> jury, and ammo.
>> Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author
>> Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004,
>> Maurice E. Heskett,
>> all rights
>> reserved.
--
Cheers, Gene
There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot,
jury, and ammo.
Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author
Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004,
Maurice E. Heskett,
all rights
reserved.
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