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Re: [SLE] 32 bit software on 64 bit
- From: Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 20:10:49 -0400
- Message-id: <20050531201049.5a55341d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, 31 May 2005 22:16:10 +0100
David Bolt <fhfr-yva-r@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2005, Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> wrote:-
>
> >On Tuesday 31 May 2005 1:46 pm, David Bolt wrote:
> >> They aren't new style at all as the dual layered disc format was a part
> >> of the DVD specs from the start, and any DVD drive with the DVD logo
> >> should be able to easily read them. If the drive can't read them then it
> >> is faulty, either through not being compliant with the DVD spec, or
> >> because the hardware is broken.
> >While the multi-layered format may have been part of the DVD spec from the
> >start, many older DVD readers could not read the multi-layered DVD.
>
> Then they are broken[0].
>
> >Neither my laptop nor my wife's desktop systems can read it, and I have
> >encountered a number of other older systems that were unable to read it.
>
> As it was a requirement that DVD drives should be able to read dual
> layered discs, you have broken hardware[0]. The same goes for the other
> DVD drives that have a difficulty in reading dual layered discs.
>
> Just in case you haven't seen it, in the thread "remastering suse 9.3
> DVD" William Gallafent posted about this fact[1]. Here's the link he
> included:
>
> <URL:http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#1.18>
>
>
> [0] It might not be broken. The laser could be having a difficulty
> reading the disc because it needs to be cleaned. If the drive still
> fails to read them after cleaning, it's broken.
>
> [1] If you have a difficulty in finding it, the message-ID is
> <200505311712.48841.william@xxxxxxxxxx> and it should be archived as
> message number 238016.
The 1997 DVD specification called for a 4.7GB (DVD-5) data capacity
however it did talk about dual layer (DVD-9). My point is that some
older DVD ROM drives did not ever have the capability to read the dual
layer DVDs. I'm not sure when DVDs with dual-layer capacity started tpo
be included with PCS.
Both of my DVD readers (my laptop and wife's
computer) were build before 2000.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9
PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
David Bolt <fhfr-yva-r@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2005, Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> wrote:-
>
> >On Tuesday 31 May 2005 1:46 pm, David Bolt wrote:
> >> They aren't new style at all as the dual layered disc format was a part
> >> of the DVD specs from the start, and any DVD drive with the DVD logo
> >> should be able to easily read them. If the drive can't read them then it
> >> is faulty, either through not being compliant with the DVD spec, or
> >> because the hardware is broken.
> >While the multi-layered format may have been part of the DVD spec from the
> >start, many older DVD readers could not read the multi-layered DVD.
>
> Then they are broken[0].
>
> >Neither my laptop nor my wife's desktop systems can read it, and I have
> >encountered a number of other older systems that were unable to read it.
>
> As it was a requirement that DVD drives should be able to read dual
> layered discs, you have broken hardware[0]. The same goes for the other
> DVD drives that have a difficulty in reading dual layered discs.
>
> Just in case you haven't seen it, in the thread "remastering suse 9.3
> DVD" William Gallafent posted about this fact[1]. Here's the link he
> included:
>
> <URL:http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#1.18>
>
>
> [0] It might not be broken. The laser could be having a difficulty
> reading the disc because it needs to be cleaned. If the drive still
> fails to read them after cleaning, it's broken.
>
> [1] If you have a difficulty in finding it, the message-ID is
> <200505311712.48841.william@xxxxxxxxxx> and it should be archived as
> message number 238016.
The 1997 DVD specification called for a 4.7GB (DVD-5) data capacity
however it did talk about dual layer (DVD-9). My point is that some
older DVD ROM drives did not ever have the capability to read the dual
layer DVDs. I'm not sure when DVDs with dual-layer capacity started tpo
be included with PCS.
Both of my DVD readers (my laptop and wife's
computer) were build before 2000.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9
PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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