From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Beolach Subject: Re: Save data on DVD+R Drive?? Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 15:33:22 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FE4CE32.2060503@comcast.net> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20031220105515.01f9b3c0@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20031220105515.01f9b3c0@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: haltec@kvinet.com Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 10:21 AM 12/20/2003 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote: > >> Greetings: I just acquired a HP 300i DVD+R drive, learning the ropes >> with it.. >> >> I've fetched Chris Stoddard's tome using the drive to burn video but >> I would like to use it for simple data storage, taking advantage of >> it's 4.7gB, using 'cdrecord' if possible.. >> >> Can someone point me to where I may find something to get started >> with?? > > > I don't have one of these myself yet, but ... > > 1. The man page for mkisofs says the iso9660 image files it makes will > work with DVDs. > > 2. There is a Debian-Sid package called "dvd+rw-tools" that includes > (from the package description) "a format utility for DVD+-RW media, a > frontend to mkisofs for burning DVD+-RW/R and some associated tools". I > forget what distro you use, but all the big ones are likely to have > something similar. > As Hal uses Slackware, I thought I'd just point out that Slackware includes this package as well. However, it is included in 9.1 & current, but not in 9.0 (which Hal's sig indicates he has). You can download the Slackware dvd+rw-tools package from . > 3. There is also a Debian-Sid package dedrtools, described as: > "dvdrtools allows you to create both CDs and DVDs using recorders for > both formats. It supports writing data, audio mixed, multi-session, CD+, > {insert DVD+RW, DVD+R, etc format war here} on most types of CD and DVD > recorders". > I don't see this in a Slackware package. But my (completely uneducated) guess is dvd+rw-tools has everything you need for most tasks. > 4. There ised to be a Debian package called dvdrecord. But I cannot find > a current reference to it, so I infer that one of the above packages > (probably dvdrtools) contains that app. > > 5. As I read the man page for cdrecord (2.0+a19-6), it does not yet > support any DVD burning hardware (+ or -, R or RW). Instead, you want > the similar "dvdrecord" program that the above package provides. > It doesn't look like 'dvdrecord' is included in the Slackware package. The 4 programs it has are 'dvd+rw-mediainfo', 'dvd+rw-booktype', 'growisofs', and 'dvd+rw-format'. [snip] > > If you do get this working, I'd welcome the opportunityo to read about > how you did it. > I second that. It would be nice to know at least what programs you end up using. HTH, Conway S. Smith - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs