On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:47 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote:
on 5-12-2008 10:17 AM MHR spake the following:
It might not have finished the install, and something made it reboot before it had written the grub records.
I figure I'll just start over and sit there to watch while I read a book or something. (sigh)
Turns out it looks like the DVD didn't burn quite right (even though K3B verified it) and the install aborted about 2/3 of the way through.
Thanks!
mhr
MHR wrote:
Turns out it looks like the DVD didn't burn quite right (even though K3B verified it) and the install aborted about 2/3 of the way through.
if you have a newer '16X' or whatever DVD burner, tell your burning software to go no faster than 8X, and your disks will be 100% more reliable
the higher speed modes are 'constant angular velocity', while the 8X mode is 'constant linear velocity', and seems to generate far fewer errors on the last (outer) part of the disk. I've found this to be true with various model burners and various types of blank media.
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:25 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
if you have a newer '16X' or whatever DVD burner, tell your burning software to go no faster than 8X, and your disks will be 100% more reliable
I've noticed that - in my (now defunct) Emprex 16x burner, the 12x DVDs were good virtually anywhere, but the 16x DVDs were chancy. On my old (even deader) Hammer (Panasonic) burner, it was 8x (didn't support 12x).
Now I have a Pioneer 18x that supports 12x as the next lowest speed (!), and a brang new Samsung (TSST) 20x drive that maxes out at a whopping 2.47x (no kidding - that's my need for the new firmware...).
I'll try an 8x burn and see how that does - almost certainly will be better....
Thanks.
mhr
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