On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:48:48AM +0100, Martin Stricker wrote: > "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? According to the Dell web page, this drive supports CD-RW, CDR, DVD+R and DVD+RW. > > 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! Yes, dvd+rw-tools is listed above, and we are running the latest version. Anyone else get something like this working? Thanks, Cheryl -- Cheryl Southard cld@astro.caltech.edu -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
