| Summary: | BD-R was actually written on although 'simulation' was ticked | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] k3b | Reporter: | ben <contact1-ben> |
| Component: | Burning/Hardware | Assignee: | k3b developers <k3b> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | critical | CC: | gordoneki, michalm, trueg |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 19.12 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
ben
2022-06-28 06:41:36 UTC
As far as I know, a "simulation" feature is only a part of the standard on CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, and HD-DVD. It seems not to be included DVD+R, DVD+RW, and Blu-ray discs. However, according to https://helpmanual.io:443/man1/cdvdcontrol/ , Plextor drives do support DVD+R writing simulation. One can assume this applies to DVD+RW as well. Nero has a warning that DVD+R writes might not be simulated. On an additional note, always perform test burns on write-once discs using data you would have burned anyway. Writing junk data on write-once discs for testing is wasteful. I did it once using Nero DiscSpeed's testing feature to see if Nero's warning is just a bluff, because I could not imagine something as "simulated writing" not to work. But it wrote actual data. What I found out is that it writes the drive model at the end on DVD plus discs in a way only DiscSpeed itself recognizes it. Because only DVD-R and -RW (not sure about -RAM) store the "recorder information" (drive model) in a dedicated section. |