At 10:21 AM 12/20/2003 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote: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 <ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1/slackware/ap/dvd+rw-tools-5.12.4.7.4-i486-1.tgz>.
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.
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.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'.
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.
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I second that. It would be nice to know at least what programs you end up using.
If you do get this working, I'd welcome the opportunityo to read about how you did it.
HTH, Conway S. Smith
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