To all thoes that answered my help call..........Thanks My solution that appears to work i shall now give back too anyone else that may need it. I have collected all relavent e-mails together..below
1......vfat..fat32 file size <=2GB 2......ext2/3 file size <=2GB 3 .....xfs file size >2GB top limit unknown but 4.4GB can be written. Thanks to Bret & Piers 4......Piers sent me to http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ and that gave me a lot of usufull info. I hope that this information is found usful to others wishing to burn DVD's Once again thanks to those below for their help Gerald On Friday 18 July 2003 16:35, you wrote: > I use some of the Pioneer drives to burn DVD's under linux without any > problems, however the Pioneer drives are DVD-RW. > > Have a look at AA > http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ > as it has lots of useful info on DVD+RW under linux. The summary is that > you should be able to use the drive under linux. > > -Piers. > > On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 16:27, Gerald Catling wrote: > > Hello to one & all, > > > > I Have just aquired a Richo DVD+RW Burner drive and i am wondering if > > anyone has done any burning of dvd's under Linux? > > It works moderately well under Win98 but since a really only run Linux i > > would like to find out how to do burn in same & NOT uner WIn98 > > > > TIA > > > > Gerald > > --- > The impossible is possible tonight. I haven't experienced this (or in fact DVD buring in general). What I'm supposing is happening is that you're making an image first then copying that to DVD-R media. The act of creating the image seems to be creating a file in excess of 2GB. This is the limit of the ext2 fs. I believe ReiserFS for example allows for files to be up to 4GB in size. Brett On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 20:45, Gerald Catling wrote: > Hello to one and all, > > I am trying to copy a SuSE 8.2 DVD. I find that all of a sudden some dvd > drives will not read the disk. > I have a Ricoh 5125a dvd burner but even under Windows i cannot copy the dvd > to another dvd+R disk. > using dd and adding to a vfat mounted data drive i am getting to 2gb then the > system stops with the message 'file size limit exceeded'. Is this a Linux > thing or a Windows limit. (win98se) > The software that came with the dvd burner seems more geared up to video > copying than data burning. B's dvd burning software does not seem to be all > that good either. it will only do single drive copies of dvd's but even then > it is not sucessful. > > The burner is +r/rw and the software is version 1.64. > > Has anyone out there in the wild blue yonder burnt a +r/rw dvd with any > sucess? Under Windows or Linux? > > I did have a reply to my last e-mail but i have lost it so, to whom it may > concern many thanks but the suggested action did not work. > I down loaded the DVD+R/RW source files but they would not compile. > > Any other help would be greatfully recieved. > I have tried some dvd burner software from the UK mag Linux > Format May 2003. that also dies with a message that a media size greater than > 100 mins cannot be handled. > I am getting desperate even having had the dvd only a few days!!!! > > TIA > Gerald On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 08:45:32PM +1000, Gerald Catling wrote: > I am trying to copy a SuSE 8.2 DVD. I find that all of a sudden some dvd > drives will not read the disk. > I have a Ricoh 5125a dvd burner but even under Windows i cannot copy the dvd > to another dvd+R disk. > using dd and adding to a vfat mounted data drive i am getting to 2gb then the > system stops with the message 'file size limit exceeded'. Is this a Linux > thing or a Windows limit. (win98se) Seems it's a FAT32 limit. Try create a real filesystem (ext2/3, reiserfs, XFS) to store the image. I use some of the Pioneer drives to burn DVD's under linux without any problems, however the Pioneer drives are DVD-RW. Have a look at http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ as it has lots of useful info on DVD+RW under linux. The summary is that you should be able to use the drive under linux. -Piers. On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 16:27, Gerald Catling wrote: > Hello to one & all, > > I Have just aquired a Richo DVD+RW Burner drive and i am wondering if anyone > has done any burning of dvd's under Linux? > It works moderately well under Win98 but since a really only run Linux i would > like to find out how to do burn in same & NOT uner WIn98 > > TIA > > Gerald --- The impossible is possible tonight. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
