On Sunday 23 Mar 2003 19:37, Ryan Eberhart wrote:
> From: "gabor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [gentoo-user] dvd+r or dvd-r
>
> > hi,
> >
> >
> > i'm kind of thinking about buying a dvd burner...
> >
> > what is better? dvd+r or dvd-r? i know it's a stupid question but i
> > want to hear opinions.
> > which has a more bright future? both? which is a better technology?
> > can be dvd+r's burned with higher speed than 2.4x ?
> > please share your thought/experiences with me.
> >
> > for example i've read that you can use a dvd+rw as a normal disk,
> > that means you can format it for ext2/3 and normally copy/delete data
> > to/from it. did anyone try that?
> >
> > thanks,
> > gabor
> >
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> I'd say if you have a little extra cash get the Sony burner that can do
> both DVD+R and DVD-R... that way you'll have both. It's only an extra
> $100 I think.
>
I was aiming to get the Sony DRU-500A. They are rare as rocking horse
shit here in the UK. I was advised by my local dealer to give it a miss:
they are in short supply because they have to go straight back to Sony
for a firmware fix.
After searching around the net I came to the conclusion that there's
probably not much future in DVD+R/+RW anyway and the DVD-R/-RW standard
is more compatible. I ended up buying a Pioneer DVD-R/-RW burner and am
very pleased with the results.
You can buils UDF file system support (including write) in your linux
kernel and treat a DVD-RW just like any other dis{c,k}. Here's a start
for reading:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/dvdrtools-users/2003-01/msg00007.html
http://www.burnworld.com/cdr/hardware/sony/dru500a.htm
http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h310.htm
http://www.nongnu.org/dvdrtools/
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-udf/
http://www.dvdplusrw.org/resources/bitsettings.html
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/linux-2.4.patch
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/tools/
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/#tutorial
http://www.linuxvideo.org/docs/Linux-DVD-HOWTO/en/Linux-DVD-HOWTO-en.html
Peter
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