Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:50:03 +0100 From: Neal Nelson <nealie@kobudo.homeunix.net> To: Laurence Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Layer DVD Writing Message-ID: <b1ac7c80bb18281788bc0ede67247b29@kobudo.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <4202579E.5000407@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org> References: <6284ab933d2ff6604f58e1d1ae882f1a@kobudo.homeunix.net> <4202579E.5000407@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org>
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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.
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