On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:25 am, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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.
I've used burncd for some time with a standard CD writer and I *thought* I tried the same thing, some time ago, using "fixate" on the DVD drive without success. Perhaps I was mistaken or maybe the version of burncd was not late enough. > > > 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; > [ ... ] I have 5.21 and found most of the above in the source code so it looks as though I can write double layer +R but will need to upgrade to write double layer -R. WRT -use-the-force-luke=break:size, is this a necessary option or will it default to a sensible value? Thanks, Malcolm Kay _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
