Re: pktcdvd and DVDRAM defect management

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:13:36 +1300
Volker Kuhlmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Which LG model, please? And what firmware revision if you know?
> 
> I'm thinking of upgrading, but there were problem reports with LG on the
> cdrom mailing list.
> 

The model is GSA-H42L.

The firmware is version SL01 (dated April 2007), which I believe
is the latest.

The drive is comparatively cheap ($45.00 US) and operates at
DMA 4.

So far, I've had no problems with the drive under Linux, but
since I've changed to DVD-RAM disks exclusively, I no longer
use the pktcdvd driver.  With the UDF filesystem, writing a
lot of data seems to take a long time.  There are reports that
the pktcdvd driver will speed this up, but I haven't tried this
method -- yet.

FP