[kde-linux] k3b won't verify data

[Gaffer.]

Hi Guys,

Just an update for today!

On Tuesday 05 February 2008 19:25, Gaffer. inscribed thus:
> Hi Anne,
>
> On Monday 04 February 2008 19:55, Gaffer. inscribed thus:
> > Hi Anne,
>
> <-Snipped->
>
> > > > > > > This bug has been there quite a while.  In my
> > > > > > > experience it only seems to affect DVD's  CD's write
> > > > > > > and verify for me just fine.
>
> See below !
>
> > > > I have only one drive, a NEC_DVD_ RW ND-3500AG-B.  Its seems
> > > > only to fail to verify when I burn a DVD.  The burn always
> > > > completes just fine, then I hit cancel when its fails to
> > > > start the verification.
> > >
> > > Is there any possibility of borrowing a drive and trying that? 
> > > I could be way off beam, but every thread I've read about this
> > > seems to come back to a hardware problem.  As a matter of
> > > interest, how old is the drive?  Is it one of the early
> > > generation of DVD drives? Standards were not as adhered to in
> > > the early days - the old business of trying to get an advantage
> > > by doing something non-standard.  Anyway, if you can borrow a
> > > drive and try that it would answer the problem, one way or the
> > > other.
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > Sure I can pop another drive in there and test it.   The above
> > drive is probably 5 or 6 months old, but when I remove it I will
> > check the manufactured date for you.
>
> The date on the drive is "August 07"  So that makes it just about 7
> months old.
>
> The replacement drive is a "Liteon 20L DL DVD"  !!  I'll have to
> take it out again to check its data.  I was in too much of a hurry
> to swap drives I forgot to write it down.

Right had the drive out and looked at the label.

Liteon LH-20-A1P487C-B  Date of manufacture 01/07 ie January 2007.   
Brand new but its already 12 months old out of the box.

> <-Snipped->
>
> Ok I give up!  I did a burn of the SuSE 10.3 Live CD and it failed
> to verify.   So I tried to burn the install DVD with the same
> result.
>
> I'm out of time for today.

I tried again today with a 4Gb data backup to a DVD.   Burns just fine 
but no verify.

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             Derrick.