On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:22:17PM -0700, Frank Hage wrote: > On 2002.11.06, Joerg Schilling wrote: > : > : > : >From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : > : >> : But DVD-* media is cheaper and I see no advantage in using DVD+ media. > : >> > : >> Other advantages are the ability to completely fill the disks (> 4 GB > : >> iso files are a problem on 32 bit systems) and not needing free space > : >> for the disk images. > : > : >"When you don't know what you are talking about. Shut up". :-) > : > : See above ;-)...... > : > : >I burn DVD-Rs for more than a year now and from day one on i had never > : >problems with file-sizes (*1) (*2) > : > > I'm sorry. I forgot that DVD +/- geeks were having a religious war. ;-)
You say it. There is only one god. :-) > Yes, you .de guys are right. Your Mileage Varies greatly from mine. A few month ago i even read an articel in our "Linux Magazin" about the "2GB Barrier" (The Topic was DVD-Recording). I felt like beeing warped back into the stoneage. :-) > However, perhaps you should look at it from my point of view. Often > "Confused and Ignorant", I go on trying to do my real job using computers > my institution provides and supports. Stability is a big issue in my work, > so we often run SEVERAL YEARS behind current releases on our computers. We > do this on purpose, because they need to collect and process data 24/7, > often for years at a time. I have limited options and little patience > for chasing development/alpha software. Yes, DVD- works great for you > after you patched, updated, split, etc... and then, what... diddled > Joerg for a cdrecord key? Perhaps I don't have that option. For burning i only had to recompile mkisofs because the version from my distribution wasn't compiled right, it couldn't create an image >2GB. But besides that i didn't had to change anything else in my system. So i've never splitted my images, since the 2GB Barrier was gone since 2.4pre<whatever> and i used 2.4.4 or 2.4.9 the time i burned my first DVD-R. For reading files bigger 1GB the kernel had to be patched because otherwise the file would be shown as 16MB or something like that. No keys back then. The binary was the key, i got my "own" cdrecord. The keys came later. And another "thing" i never had problems with and where other people have a variing milage is firewire. Since day one i use the DVD-R connected via a IDE <-> Firewire enclosure. It took about 10 "try"s until i finally had my first DVD-R-coaster. :-) Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
