Re: Fatal error while burning CD
> On June 25, 2021 at 5:49 AM Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Michael Lange wrote:
> > If someone here can report about experience (good or bad) with specific
> > make and models (still not sure whether the next drive will be a DVD- or
> > BD-writer), it would be welcome...
>
> In general i'd buy any brand of full height drives.
> I currently run 3 LGs, 2 ASUS, 1 Samsung, 1 Optiarc, 1 PIONEER.
>
> It's more a matter of the individual drive than of the manufacturer or
> model. Not so good during the last 5 years were:
> - The flaky new DVD burner which i had to send back was a LITEON
> iHAS124F. But i know of other iHASen which work well.
> - An LG GH24NSC0 became unreliable after only two years.
> The LITEON was planned as replacement. In the end the job went to a
> ASUS DRW-24D5MT.
> (Both did cost about 15 EUR. So any testing at the factory would eat up
> the manufacturer's profit.)
>
> I always refrained from slim drives. User reports suggest that they are
> a bit less reliable. But your mileage may vary ...
>
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> A little warning about PIONEER BDR-S09 might be appropriate:
>
> Mine reads BD-RW with such a high (and not adjustable) speed and has such
> a strong grip on the medium, that two newer "Verbatim" BD-RW media
> developed a radial crack from the inner hole towards the writable area.
> With one of the media the crack reached the writable area and made the
> medium unreadable.
> This happened during stress tests after about 10 times of reading. The
> media bear the manufacturer id "CMCMAG/CN2/0". Older Verbatim BD-RW
> (VERBAT/IM0/0) or those from "Intenso", "Primeon" and "Maxcell"
> (all RITEK/BW1/1) did not suffer such a damage in 20 read runs at about
> 10x BD speed.
> The drive itself survived the intensive testing without problems.
>
> I addressed the PIONEER BDR-S09's unwillingness to read with slower speed
> by special parameters of xorriso command -read_speed, which curb the drive
> speed by simply not taking more data per second than the desired speed
> would deliver. I.e. xorriso waits with new READ(10) commands until enough
> time has eleapsed since the last one. This causes the drive to make less
> noise and to let the "CMCMAG/CN2/0" media survive 20 read runs without
> visible damage:
>
> xorriso -for_backup -indev /dev/sr1 \
> -read_speed soft_force:4xBD \
> -check_media --
>
> (The Linux kernel offers no such curb mechanism, i fear.)
>
> In general i only feed the PIONEER with the RITEKs of which i have enough.
> I now refrain from buying new "Verbatim" BD-RW, although it might be that
> their plastic body became more sturdy meanwhile.
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas
>
I've had an LG GP08LU11, ROM version X01 "Super Multi DVD Rewriter" for several years,
and while it has not seen heavy use, it has always worked reliably, and now with a new
drive-less computer, I've had to use it more frequently. It has been reliable, and it
also will burn Lite-Scribe disk info into those disks, which many full-size built in
drives won't. Neither will the drive in a Dell laptop. As usual, YMMV. --doug
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