Hi, > > For cdrskin i decided to: > > - disallow undefined track size with DVD-R[W] DAO > > and demand a recognizable file size or an explicit > > track size. > Just for reference, Joerg and I had a discussion of this, related to > doing remote backups where the ISO image is generated on one machine and > piped to cdrecord on another. It appears to have the same limitations,
Those are the hard limitations of DAO write mode on DVD-R[W] as it seems. Although the specs leave a little hope for a pro-forma track reservation with insufficient size, my drives don't allow this. DAO means fixed image size. :( But there is still Incremental Streaming ! :)) TAO-like multi-session writing on DVD-R[W]. I love it. Only my 2.4 kernel driven DVD-ROM dislikes. A DVD-ROM under kernel 2.6 and my ide-scsi driven burners have no problem with incremental multi-session DVD-RW. The mount command of my kernel 2.4 finds the last session on DVD-RW and mounts it. A drawback is that the DVD-RW media have to be new or blanked fully. Minimally blanked DVD-RW do only DAO. There is also Restricted Overwrite formatting for DVD-RW (not for DVD-R) which allows no traditional multi-session but needs no predicted size and no blanking. If the drive-media compatibility of DVD-RW wasn't such a mess, i would declare it my favorite media. But for the sake of reliable burn success i stay with DVD+RW for my backups. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
