Hi Dave, I have found in the past that some DVD writers need a bios / firmware upgrade to be able to cope with the faster DVD's. Usually this is a windows program you run which overwrites something inside the DVD hardware itself, which will then work fine for writing. This is unlikely to be helpful for your redhat system though... Unless you have it dual boot?
Cheers, Graeme -----Original Message----- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of david lawson (JIC) Sent: 19 September 2007 11:42 To: [email protected] Subject: [ccp4bb] Archiving onto DVD with RH linux Dear ccp4BB, Sorry for the non-ccp4 post. I have been using a NEC DVD_RW ND-2500A drive to archive onto DVD-Rs (using 'mkisofs' and 'dvdrecord' commands) from our RH linux system. This has worked very well with 8x compatible DVD-R disks, but doesn't recognise the newer 16x disks that only seem to be available now. I suspect I will need to buy a new drive. I would be grateful of any recommendations - particularly drives that are likely to be more 'future-proof' if we go to 32x, 64x ... Thanks in advance, Dave ------------------------------- Dr. David M. Lawson Biological Chemistry Dept., John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK. Tel: +44-(0)1603-450725 Fax: +44-(0)1603-450018 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.jic.bbsrc.ac.uk/staff/david-lawson/index.htm
