Its a HL-DT-ST dvd+-RW GA11N<br><br>Other who experience this with the same drive or after updating their firmware on LG drives:<br><br><a href="http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86595">http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86595</a><br>
One post here of interest:<br>I had a similar problem with the Dell XPS M1340. I had recently updated
the firmware for my DVDRW to the latest version (support for Win 7) , I
couldn't burn anything in Arch (K3B, Nero, CLI), but could in Windows 7
(Nero). I downgraded it back to vA108 and it works again. <br><br><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8728991">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8728991</a><br><br>there are more... A common pattern i find is that a lot of these are Dell laptops.<br>
<br>And i am not saying all LG drives have this issue, not at all, most work great.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Thomas Schmitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scdbackup@gmx.net">scdbackup@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
surfed wrote:<br>
> This is an LG drive and googling the issue the problem<br>
> seems to be wide spread.<br>
<br>
</div>My own LG drives work fine with Linux and<br>
FreeBSD. One of them seems to be the predecessor<br>
of the drive in question<br>
'HL-DT-ST' 'BDDVDRW GGC-H20L'.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> I have come to the conclusion that these<br>
> drives received an firmware update for win7 compatibility but it made<br>
> them useless in linux.<br>
<br>
</div>Optical drives comply to MMC specs and not to<br>
particular OS versions. Sometimes one can work<br>
around firmware bugs. It is not impossible that<br>
Windows resp. the burn program knows a trick.<br>
But in general i would accept this only as last<br>
explanation if everything else has been outruled.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> swapping the drive to a sony and voila i can burn in<br>
> linux. I believe it has something to to with burnfree and dma access?<br>
<br>
</div>This is of course a strong argument for a<br>
systematic weakness of the drives in question.<br>
But one cannot blame this on all LG drives.<br>
What model do you have ?<br>
<br>
burnfree should not have the described effect.<br>
(If "should not" means anything in this case.)<br>
<br>
DMA was an issue with IDE/P-ATA. Indeed one has<br>
poor throughput without it. But 0.3x DVD speed<br>
is too slow, even for IDE PIO on a 1900 MHz<br>
machine.<br>
<br>
<br>
My personal favorit culprit is still the multi-<br>
tasking environment of the OS where the drives<br>
show failure or poor performance.<br>
But of course i can be wrong.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
Have a nice day :)<br>
<br>
Thomas<br>
<br>
<br>
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