On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 22:11, Kevin Krieser wrote: > Further, when I experimented with the ProDVD with +RW media, I had to > tell it to ignore size, or I got the same error about over 100 minutes. > > Note, this is with RH9. Fedora is on another machine. > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Wolfgang > Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 10:50 PM > To: Fedora Core List > Subject: Re: DVD+RW burns 3GB but only reads back as 13MB > > > On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 15:38, Peter Kiem wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone have any experience with DVD+RW burning in Fedora? I am > > trying to do it from command line (rather than use something like k3b) > > > as I am trying to work this into my backup scripts. > > > > I used to use a CD-RW drive for doing backups but just replaced the > > drive with a DVD+RW drive to cut down on the number of discs I have to > > > write. > > > > No matter what I did I couldn't get dvdrecord working as a replacement > > > for cdrecord. Errors ranged from "cannot burn > 100 mins" to "Wrong > > media". > > > > After a bit of reading I found the growisofs command which seemed to > > work fine. This is the command I gave to burn a 3GB tar file to the > > DVD+RW > > > > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cdrom holding.tar > > > > Now growisofs SAID it wrote the full 3GB and looking at the disc it > > certainly has used most of the area as you can see where it has > > written the data. > > > > But when I try to read the disc in either of 2 DVD drives I have on > > the system I can only see a 13MB file! > > > > Any ideas cause this has got me stumped :( > > I use X-CDroast to burn DVD-RW's. But to do that with X-Cdroast (For > example) one needs to download another program to allow that to happen. > This site will help in that area > > http://www.xcdroast.org/ > > With the Cdrecord.ProDVD file, I can burn the full 4.7GB's without a > problem (I use it for system backups too). Just take note that you need > a special key to be able to burn at full capacity (That info is shown on > the main page). There may be other ways to do it, but I found this way > much easier for me, and it may help you too. > > Wolf [snip] If you read up on ProDVD, you will find that +RW's are not fully supported yet. As they use a different format to -RW's. And these are what I use and work great for me. Both on RH9 & Fedora C1. Wolf
