Current DVD+RW/+R Drive/media prices - USA
FYI: For whatever reason, here in the US, it seems as if DVD+R is being more heavily marketed than DVD-R. In last Sunday's newspaper adverts only +R and +RW drives and media were being advertised, with the exception of the Sony all purpose DRU-500A at $320. Current advertised retail prices at my local (Colorado) computer chain stores: Memorex 2.4x DVD+RW - $200 (with $50 mail-in rebate) HP 200i- $300 Philips 5pk DVD+R - $10, 5pk DVD+RW - $15 + cases Fuji DVD+R 25 pk spindle - $50. My personal price threshold for purchase at home has been $200. Does anyone have any experience with the Memorex DVD+RW drives? I'd be using both DVD and CD-RW media. -Thanks. -- Frank Hage [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Center for Atmospheric Research -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD+RW/+R for Linux update
On 2002.11.04, Joerg Schilling wrote: : : : But DVD-* media is cheaper and I see no advantage in using DVD+ media. One advantage I find is the ability to burn directly from NFS mounted partitions. It's slow but it works well. I've got gobs and gobs of data spread across many machines, many filled to capacity. It takes me less time and a lot less work to cross mount our aging workstations and burn directly than it does to copy and create iso files, and then burn. 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. Although its possible to pipe mkisofs output to cdrecord and avoid producing an image, (which I usually do for CDR), buffer underruns are a problem when the files live across on a NFS partition. Of course, YMMV. -- Frank Hage [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Center for Atmospheric Research -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MP3 packing format
On 2002.10.28, Hanspeter Roth wrote: : : Hello, : : is there a standard pertaining the format how MP3 should be packed : onto a CD? Is it audio, data or does it have it's own packing : format? : : -Hanspeter : I don't think there's a standard. I think it depends on the player. I recently purchased a cheap CD/MP3 player. It was somewhat picky about how the disk and files were written before it had all its functionality. I get good results writing 128Kbps mp3's on plain IS09960 (with 32 character filenames enabled). ID3 tags in the MP3 files are used to provide song title and artist info as the music plays. My player has no problems traversing directories. Names do not have to be 8.3 I organised my files by artist/album/*.mp3 etc. -Cheers, -- Frank Hage [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Center for Atmospheric Research -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Write e2fs to CD
: : How? Specifically, if I wanted to burn my /www subdirectory and all : files and subdirs contained within to CD. I know I can mkisofs out of : it, but I dont want that. I just want a copy of my e2fs /www on CD. : : Thanks : Korey : Korey, It's not clear if your /www represents the root of a e2fs file system. Assuming it does, here's all you need to do; dd if=/dev/hdaX bs=32k | cdrecord -v - (replace hdaX with your e2fs partition mounted as /www) I often backup directories into tar files and then write those to CD's using mkisofs, rather than running mkisofs on the directories themselves. Tar files keep file permissions, ownerships, dates, etc and allows for more flexibility when accessing and restoring files. I'm curious, Why do you want an e2fs on the CD? Few people would know how to read an e2fs image file or CD. I hope this helps. -- Frank Hage [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Center for Atmospheric Research -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD-RW/DVD+RW
On 2002.05.16, Joerg Schilling wrote: : : I still see no real advantage: : - The DVD+RW must be formatted to be used : - If the DVD-RW is formatted it may be used a block device too. : I see s stong disadvantage with DVD+R: it is incompatible with DVD+RW. We are trying to assess the different DVD R and DVD RW technologies for our own data archive needs. We bought a HP 100i about 6 weeks ago and a 200i about 1.5 weeks ago. We're not experts. Our attempts are based on methods described in various docs posted around the net. Here's the results of our testing of the HP 100i and 200i Drives under Linux. Note we have only tested them with small (1.5) GB data sets so far. DVD+RW: Both the HP 100i and 200i will Write and Read DVD+RW. We used growisofs which uses a formating tool (dvd+rw-format) and mkisofs to create file systems on the disk. The output from mkisofs goes directly to the raw device. cdrecord is not used. Most of our PC DVD-R's will read the DVD+RW disk. Laptop drives would not. Data can be added to the disks using 'growisofs'', but deleting requires a re-format, and re-writing. DVD+R: ONLY the 200i will Write and Read DVD+R. We used mkisofs and cdrecord, much like we do for CD+RW. The 200i is the only drive we can get to read the disks. No other drive we have (including the 100i) can read them. My personal conclusions: DVD+RW: Useful. Drives are inexpensive. Media costs are medium. Requires similar kinds of planning and scripting as multi-session CDR's . Are usable on other drives. DVD+R: Not currently useful. Drives are inexpensive, but only one is out. Few if any DVD drives can read these disks. -- Frank Hage [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Center for Atmospheric Research -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD-RW/DVD+RW
On 2002.05.15, Joerg Schilling wrote: : : From: Andy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : As the DVD+R drives are not yet available, : : Yes, there are. : : You cannot get them for money now. : Here in the US, we are able to get the HP DVD200i (DVD+RW, DVD+R, CD-RW) for $500. We currently have had one for about 2 weeks and are in the process of testing it. So far, so good. We are now seeing how many of our DVD readers can read these disks. They're also in stock at our local CompUsa stores for $499.99 See: http://www.shopping.hp.com/ and search for dvd200i for more info on the drive. -- Frank Hage [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Center for Atmospheric Research -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question rgarding cdrecord -atip: Indicated writing power:
: : : I want to determine the fastest speed I can write a CD -R which I'm hoping can be determined from the atip output for Indicated writing power. Not having access to a specification, I have sample disks indicating a speeds up to 16x, but the atip output indicates a writing power: of 7. -- +---+-+ | Kenneth A. Manley | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +---+-+ My experience has been that I can specify speeds greater than that allowed by the media or drive, and cdrecord will automatically back off to the max speed allowed. It's not clear what your concerns about the Indicated writing power are. -- Frank Hage [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Center for Atmospheric Research -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
