> Why don't you just use a recent cdrecord version? I did it. Got 2.01.01a35 sources from berlios site and cdrecord burned my 6.8GB image perfectly to the disk. Thanks for pointing me to it.
> > cdrecord includes full support for DVD+R/DL > (including automated and manual > layer breask setup - the latter is needed for > DVD-Video) and > basic support for DVD-R/DL since a year. > > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ > > http://cdrecord.berlios.de/ > > Install the "cdrecord" binary as > /usr/bin/cdrecord.bin > > I also recommend to replace mkisofs and the other > programs. Mkisofs now has a > lot more features and foxed a lot of bugs. > > > cdrw is not needed on Solaris and it is questionable > whether the feature you > like will appear in cdrw soon. > > cdrw is a strange program on Solaris. It has been > started as CD only > program around 2002 - 4 years after cdrecord did > introduce DVD writing support. > At the time cdrw was added to Solaris, they also > added mkisofs but not cdrecord > although cdecord and mkisofs are in the same source > distribution tar ball. > > cdrw added DVD write support for Solaris 10 after > cdrecord went into Solaris. > > Jörg I know. I used cdrecord with CD-RWs back when I had Solaris 8 installed and it has saved me from the painful choice between going back to Windows or sacrificing my US$300 (back then cd writer drives were very expensive, weren't they?) investment on a CD-RW drive. At first cdrw seemed like a redundant, Sun-branded program to say that Solaris already has CD/DVD burning capabilities built-in without the need for a third-party program. However I found the following advantages to it, which maybe would be of interest to you as maintainer of cdrecord: 1. cdrw shows the progress of the recording session with a percent amount that lets the user know whether it is close to the end or not, while cdrecord just says "Operation starts." and lets you wondering until the prompt appears. 2. cdrw allows you to write a disk as straightforward as cdrw -i file.iso and most users will rarely want to know what SAO, TAO, RAW96R, XA and other acronyms mean. cdrecord is sure an expert tool, a very good one, but it looks to me as a very Unix-like program, in that the learning curve to begin using the basic features is too steep for most users (mainly those coming from Windows). Please note that I am in no way questioning the quality of cdrecord, I am only explaining my views on usability from a beginner user standpoint. -- Douglas This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
