"Cheryl L. Southard" wrote: > > Hi All, > > We've got a RedHat Linux 8.0 computer with a Philips DVD+RW-D01 > drive. This is the DVD+RW drive that Dell ships out with > their workstations. > > This drive reads and writes CD+R and DVD+RW just fine. However, > I am having problems getting it to write to a DVD+R disk. Does the drive support DVD+R writing? > It also fails if I try to write a pre-made iso file to the drive. > >From what I've read, the "dvd+rw-format" isn't necessary on > a DVD+R disk, and in fact will make the DVD+R unreadable for > any future "growisofs" writes. *ahem* You can only write once per location on a DVD+R (or DVD-R or CD-R). So any space you touched while formatting cannot be used in later burn runs (like writing your data). Just like CD-R you need to create an ISO image (either write it to a file or create it on the fly while burning) and write this image to the DVD+R. > We are running: > cdrtools-cdrecord-1.11a23-1 > cdrtools-cdda2wav-1.11a23-1 > cdrtools-mkisofs-1.11a23-1 > xcdroast-0.98alpha10-1 > dvd+rw-tools-4.1.3.0.3 Maybe you need something like dvd+r-tools to write DVD+R? I don't have a DVD burner, so I cannot help you any more... Hopefully this is at least a little help! Best regards, Martin Stricker -- Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ Linux Migration Project: http://www.linux-migration.org/ Red Hat Linux 7.3 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/ -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
