Sunday, February 23, 2003

DVD Burning (Part X)

Trying to work with the DVD burner again, see if I can do better then my last attempt now that I've defragmented the drive (and cleaned it off some more). Going to try a DVD-RW (Maxell v1.1) using Roxio's Easy CD/DVD Creator softwater to burn it as a DVD-ROM format. The only option it gave me this time was 1x speed (1350Mb/sec) and I'm going to put about 4Gb of data on the disc (around 8,000 files). Total record time should be around 52 minutes.... result - coaster (crc errors, corrupt directories).

While that's cooking, I'm gonna go check Roxio's web page to see if they have any updates (I have v5.3.2.34b). Yep, Feb 10th update.... that upgrades it to 5.3.4a. Specifically mentioned in the 5.3.4 patch is support for more DVD recordable drives. I'm also going to go to Sony's website and get the firmware upgrade for the DRU-500A while I'm at it.

In order to install the firmware update, you have to temporarily turn off Roxio's DirectCD... (easy to do under WinXP using MSConfig... not so easy under Win2000).

Well, updated the firmware, updated Roxio, and still got a coaster. However, I also heard rumor that the software that comes with the drive doesn't give coasters...

posted by Wuphon's at 6:05 PM