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From: Neal Nelson <nealie@kobudo.homeunix.net>
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On 3 Feb 2005, at 17:55, Laurence Sanford wrote:

> 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.
>
Well that's not correct as I've already written 3.9G files. It just 
balks at a 4.9G file, even though I have dual-layer media in a 
dual-layer capable drive.

Mind you, the drive also claims to be ATA-66 as well whereas 5.3-Stable 
thinks it's just ATA-33.