From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 2 13:55:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D891416A423 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:55:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B41443D5D for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:55:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B575CF7; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:55:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27916-02; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:55:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-83-14.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.83.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42A0A5CF5; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:55:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4406F93E.7090403@mac.com> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 08:55:10 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Malcolm Kay References: <200603022329.31181.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200603022329.31181.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing CDs on a DVD drive. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:55:04 -0000 Malcolm Kay wrote: > It is not very clear what utilities are capable of writing R or > RW CDs on a multipurpose optical drive. It seems that burncd > doesn't do this and the man pages for growisofs talks of > specific DVD media types but not CDs. > > Is cdrecord a suitable tool for this purpose? Even burncd ought to be able to burn a standard CD-R or a blank CD-RW...did you forget to use "fixate" or DAO burning mode? cdrecord ought to work also. > And a (sort of) related question, will growisofs write double or > dual layer DVDs? The man page does make mention of a write limit > of 4+GB but I see this can be turned off. Is this enough to > enable writing dual/double layer medis? The most recent versions of growisofs supports burning dual-layer DVDs, both DVD-R and DVD+R. If you're trying to burn things larger than 4GB, the program may not be able to generate the .iso image dynamicly on the fly from a directory tree, so if you have problems, create the .iso image as a file first and then burn it separately. I haven't heard about this problem happening (often?) under FreeBSD, however: * 5.20: [ ... ] * - DVD+R Double Layer support; * - -use-the-force-luke=4gms to allow ISO9660 directory structures * to cross 4GB boundary, the option is effective only with DVD+R DL * and for data to be accessible under Linux isofs a kernel patch is * required; * - more sane sanity check for -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:N; * - -use-the-force-luke=break:size to set Layer Break position for * Double Layer recordings; * - speed verification issue with 8x AccessTek derivatives addressed; * - -use-the-force-luke=noload to leave tray ejected at the end; * - allow to resume incomplete sessions recorded with -M option; * - Layer Break position sanity check with respect to dataset size; * - #if directive to get rid of sudo check at compile time with * 'make WARN=-DI_KNOW_ALL_ABOUT_SUDO'; * 5.21: * - Linux: fix for kernel version 2.6>=8, 2.6.8 itself is deficient, * but the problem can be worked around by installing this version * set-root-uid; * 6.0: * - fix for DVD+R recordings in Samsung TS-H542A; * - DVD-R Dual Layer DAO and Incremental support; [ ... ] -- -Chuck