Testing DVD writing drive

[feenberg-fCu/yNAGv6M at public.gmane.org (Daniel Feenberg)]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Laura Conrad wrote:

>
> I got my new computer, and the first thing I tried to do was to make a
> set of recovery disks.  It keeps failing; it writes the first disk and
> then tries to verify it and says it doesn't verify.  I've made 3
> coasters this way.

Cut the speed down to half the rated speed. That usually fixes the 
problem here. I understand an alternative is to buy very expensive media, 
but we write so few disks we haven't investigated that approach.

Daniel Feenberg

>
> I'd like to figure out whether this is a hardware problem, in which case
> I should deal with it while it's under warranty, or a software problem
> with the writing and/or verification of recovery disks.  Does anyone have a
> good method for testing a DVD writing drive?
>
> I'd like to get the recovery disks made before installing Linux, so the
> ideal answer to this question wouldn't involve Linux at all, but I can
> probably install Linux without clobbering Windows, or use a Live CD for
> Linux.
>
> It's an HP Pavilion Elite m9517c 2.2GHz Quad-Core Desktop PC w/ Blu-ray,
> running Vista Home Premium.
>
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