From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yawar Amin Subject: Re: a simple way to burn DVDs Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:26:18 +0800 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Yawar Amin Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On 5/12/05, William Stanard wrote: > I've purchased and correctly installed (it reads data CDs just fine, > mounted with "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" ) a HI-VAL DVD_RW/_R rewri= table > drive in my Compaq Proliant 800 server running Red Hat 8.0 (ver 2.4.1= 8-14 > ) in preparation to setting up the drive to do my backup chores. Ther= e > doesn't, however, seem to be a simple application as part of this > particular Red Hat build that writes to DVDs. Am I missing something,= or > do I have to purchase, for instance, NeroLINUX or some other utility = for > writing data to DVDs? As root, run the command cdrecord -scanbus I'm running Fedora Core 3, and this is what the above command outputs for me (might be a bit mangled because of word wrapping): # cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J=F6rg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c =20 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'QSI ' 'CDRW/DVD SBW242C' 'UQ81' Removable CD-= ROM 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * It has detected my CD-RW DVD-ROM drive correctly, so I can burn ISO files with the command cdrecord dev=3D1,0,0 file.iso See the cdrecord(1) man page for details. Also, the output shows that at least from FC3 onwards the (modified) version of cdrecord can write DVDs. If the RH8 version can't, you may want to upgrade it to the latest version from Red Hat. But that may turn out to be quite another problem (what with possibly changing kernel and other package dependencies, etc.). You may prefer a simple GUI tool to do the job. Nero is an option, like you said, but you probably want to explore the free software avenue first. The best-known (and with good reason) tool is K3B, but it requires KDE libraries to be installed (which I'm mentioning since RH8 installs GNOME by default). And it uses cdrecord to do the actual writing, so cdrecord needs to be set up first. --=20 Yawar - 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