On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 23:00, Kyle Schmitt wrote: > Ok, I did something stupid. I saw this drive on sale, > and I had the cash, so i bought it, without > researching it first. > After my inital failure with cdrecord and later > dvdrecord, I dug through the mailing lists and found > several other people have purchased this drive, and > had no success. But all those posts are over 4 months > old. Some almost 8. > Has there been any more luck getting this drive to > work for dvd r or dvd rw burning? > Or should I pack it up and return it from the hell > (compusa) from wence it came? > ... > Does read DVD-R media > Does write DVD-R media > Does read DVD-RAM media > Does write DVD-RAM media > ...
3rd-Gen DVD-RAM -- I have the exact same drive. It does: Rewritable: 2x DVD-RAM -- supported by stock kernel since 2.2 (1998) Recordable: 1x DVD-R(G) -- supported by CDRecord-ProDVD since 1.11a FYI, 4th-Gen DVD-RAM just came out. It's basically a 1G DVD-RW (2/1x DVD-R/RW, 12/8x CD-R/RW) + DVD-RAM rewrite functionality. Here's my latest comparison tables ... "CURRENT-G" DRIVES (mid-2002+): Panasonic Pioneer Sony (Philips?) 4G DVD-RAM 2G DVD-RW 3G DVD+RW -------------- --------------- --------------- Lowest Price: ~$300 ~$200 ~$300 Record Formats DVD-R (99%) 2xCLV 2xCLV/4xCAV 2xCLV/4xCAV*1* DVD+R (??%) - - 1xCLV/2.4xCAV Rewrite Formats DVD-RAM (<10%) 2xCLV*2* - - DVD-RW (70%) 1xCLV 2x CLV 2xCLV DVD+RW (70%) - - 1xCLV/2.4xCAV*3* CD Support CD-R 12xCLV 16xCLV 24xCAV CD-RW 8xCLV 8xCLV 10xCLV Linux Compat RW/kernel STOCK patch patch DVDRTools no YES no ProDVD (beer/$) yes (?) yes yes (?) CURRENT-G "MINUS 1" DRIVES (2000+): **YOUR DRIVE** Panasonic Pioneer Sony/Philips 2G-3G DVD-RAM 1G DVD-RW 1G-2G DVD+RW -------------- --------------- ----------------- Lowest Price: ~$150-200 ~$150 ~$150-200 Record Formats DVD-R (99%) 1xCLV*4* 2xCLV/4xCAV - DVD+R (??%) - - 1xCLV/2.4xCAV*5* Rewrite Formats DVD-RAM (<10%) 2xCLV*2* - - DVD-RW (70%) - 2x CLV - DVD+RW (70%) - - 1xCLV/2.4xCAV CD Support CD-R - 12xCLV 16xCAV (?) CD-RW - 8xCLV 10xCLV Linux Compat RW/kernel STOCK patch patch DVDRTools no YES no ProDVD (beer/$) yes yes yes NOTES: *1* 3G DVD+RW drive had (?) small, nagging DVD-R issues (gone?) *2* 1-3G DVD-RAM verify cuts performance by 40% (but not 4G?) *3* Firmware update to DVD+RW 2xCLV/4xCAV now available (?) *4* 2G DVD-RAM drives do _not_ support DVD-R at all (only 3G+) *5* 1G DVD+RW drives do _not_ support DVD+R at all (only 2G+) > yet no matter what I do when trying to burn a disc > (even a plain cd) > /usr/local/bin/dvdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or > unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder found on this target. 3rd-Gen DVD-RAM doesn't support recording/rewriting CD-R/RW. 4th-Gen DVD-RAM does though, because it now adds full DVD-RW drive capabilities. Understand that DVD-RAM was the first rewritable and not designed for consumers. It was designed for long-term archiving and maximum media reliability. 1-2G DVD-RAM didn't even offer _any_ recorder functionality, only its own rewrite. Again, 3G DVD-RAM added 1x DVD-R(G), 4G DVD-RAM added all 1G DVD-RW drive functionality. -- Bryan J. Smith (suffix-free title for your protection) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thebs.org ------------------------------------------------------- Quote of the Month: "What RedHat has done is to try to figure out a way that they are the only ones who can distribute copies of, and therefore charge for, Red Hat Linux, by using trademark law." -- Nick Simicich _______________________________________________ Dvdrtools-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dvdrtools-users