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Date:      Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:55:58 -0600
From:      Laurence Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org>
To:        Neal Nelson <nealie@kobudo.homeunix.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dual Layer DVD Writing
Message-ID:  <4202579E.5000407@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <6284ab933d2ff6604f58e1d1ae882f1a@kobudo.homeunix.net>
References:  <6284ab933d2ff6604f58e1d1ae882f1a@kobudo.homeunix.net>

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Neal Nelson wrote:

> Does anyone know how to write to a dual layer DVD?
>
> growisofs just complains that a file I want to write is too large and 
> ignores it. The web site just says that dual layer writing is 
> supported and doesn't say that I need to do anything special and the 
> man pages are silent on this aspect.


If the file you are writing is larger than (700MB?) it won't write on 
anything. If you're trying to write one big 7 gig file, it won't work. 
If you have 7 gigs worth of files smaller than 700 meg each, then it 
should work just fine.



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