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Lets talk about external USB DVD writers. Mo had one and it continually shat itself when using DVD Shrink + Nero. We put it down to it being an older Iomega drive, with USB1.
But no! Yesterday Growler buysa nice shiny dual-layer writin' drive, a big fat external case with USB2, plugs it into his monster computer at work and lo! we have the same problem. SCSI device error. Many coasters. Pretty, shiny, dual-layer coasters. Unhappy Growler.
Research leads to the conclusion that running a DVD writer over USB is terminally b0rked, thanks to incompatabilities between SCSI and Windows USB drivers. Nero seems to be the worst, but other DVD writing software has the same problem sometimes. DVD-R seems to be worse, but +R occasionally has problems.
The solution is Firewire. I swapped my shiny USB2 case for an identical Firewire case and no more problems. Happily buring dual layers at 8x speed.
Now all those DVDs can be safely backed up.
But no! Yesterday Growler buysa nice shiny dual-layer writin' drive, a big fat external case with USB2, plugs it into his monster computer at work and lo! we have the same problem. SCSI device error. Many coasters. Pretty, shiny, dual-layer coasters. Unhappy Growler.
Research leads to the conclusion that running a DVD writer over USB is terminally b0rked, thanks to incompatabilities between SCSI and Windows USB drivers. Nero seems to be the worst, but other DVD writing software has the same problem sometimes. DVD-R seems to be worse, but +R occasionally has problems.
The solution is Firewire. I swapped my shiny USB2 case for an identical Firewire case and no more problems. Happily buring dual layers at 8x speed.
Now all those DVDs can be safely backed up.
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Date: 2005-04-13 11:05 pm (UTC)Still the boss wouldn't order me an IDE one to chuck in my desktop, although our latest round of purchasing will get machines with DVD burners standard, and I'm (finally) going to be getting one...
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Date: 2005-04-13 11:31 pm (UTC)Mind you, they clearly don't want me to get any work done, so why should I feel guilty about slacking off on LJ? :)
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Date: 2005-04-13 11:33 pm (UTC)(HEh heh he reading over my shoulder again)
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Date: 2005-04-14 12:20 am (UTC)I'll consider a dual-layer burner someday, but the price of the media is still way too high - and the quality of a dual-layer disc processed through DVDShrink is so good I don't see the point for the vast majority of stuff I'd want to deal with.
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