On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 13:24, Jim Dawson wrote:
> cdrecord currently supports DVD-R/-RW, but (afaik) does not currently
> support DVD+R/+RW drives. From the CDRecord web site: "Cdrecord
> supports DVD-R and DVD-RW with all known DVD-writers on all UNIX-like
> OS and on Win32. "
>
>
>(http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html)
See the excellent page about DVD+RW at:
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
Using info on that page I was able to use DVD+RW recorder in Linux,
both as an external (FireWire) and internal drive. I was able to record
both DVD+R and DVD+RW with no problem. So, while cdrecord does not work,
it does not matter, You just use growisofs instead.
> Unfortunately it seems that the +R/+RW format seems to be gaining
> momentum. Most of the DVD recordable drives I've seen on the shelves
> of computer stores lately have been +R/+RW format.
I would have to disagree here. In my opinion (and I may be biased, as
I own a DVD+RW burner ...) It is very fortunate that DVD+RW is gaining
momentum as it appears to be a format superior to DVD-R(W). In short: it
is a true packet-writing format, so, in principle, the DVD+RW can be
even used as radom-writing device (think of it as a slow hard-drive).
Again, see the page above for more info.
Regards,
Adam Kisiel
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