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jools2001
28th February 2003, 14:01
Whenever i go to burn onto a dvd ram disc
it says the disc is not empty,
although it is,as its just been freshly formated?
Is it not possible to burn my backup dvd to dvdram,
or does it allways have to be burnt to a normal dv-r
many thanks
jools
abatis
28th February 2003, 15:35
I archive home movies on dvd-ram. They burn fine. I format with RAMdisc UDF2.0. They also work great with Linux.
jools2001
28th February 2003, 18:00
I was using instant cd/dvd to format the discs!
this time i used the option to format disc inRecordNOW MAX,
and the disc is now burning,so time will tell if its working?

thanks for reply

jools
jools2001
1st March 2003, 00:49
Film copied ok,and plays ok, in panasonic lf d310 dvd ram recorder in pc,
but when i try and play it in my Panasonic E30
It says the disk is unformatted?
anybody got any ideas on this,
or am i resigned to only backing up onto
write once dv-r

regards

jools 2001:confused:
abatis
1st March 2003, 15:37
Are you saying your trying to play a dvd-ram on a regular player? It won't work. DVD-Ram only play on specific-designed machines. By the way i have the LF-d311. Very solid. Sometimes i wish I could burn 2X or more but for under $200 US - I can handle the lack of speed.

DVD-Ram is really an archiving and storage media. 100,000 rewtrites - last 100 years kind of thing. I figure I will torture the future when they dig up my dvd-ram home movie archives.
jools2001
1st March 2003, 19:25
The Panasonic E30 is a DVD RAM machine as well!
but it wont play it back in the E30
after burning movie in my panasonic lf d310

jools :confused:
DenFussell
1st March 2003, 22:09
jools2001-

The Panasonic E30 is, I believe, a ram disc machine that will only read Panasonic proprietary files.

I believe there are some utilities that will allow E30 files to be read on a PC ram drive, but I don't think the reverse has been yaken care of.
jools2001
2nd March 2003, 00:24
I assumed that with both being Panasonic ram drives/machines
that there wouldnt be any problem reading them
from 1 drive to the other.


Has anyone got a similar setup,that reads
both discs,created in both machines?

many thanks

jools