i haven't really researched how to burn stuff in linux since maybe 4 years ago with my 8x cd burner. it was pretty straightforward then: emulate scsi with ide, then learn how to use cdrecord. 4 years later i have a dvd burner (8x nec 2500a) and things aren't quite as simple as i remember them being. i tried to research the subject using google and found some disheartening topics... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124098 http://www.fokus.fhg.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html "Both RedHat and SuSE publish bastardized and defective variants of cdrtools in their distributions. If you have problems on RedHat or SuSE systems, first fetch a recent original cdrtools source, compile it yourself and run the original instead of broken software that illegally claims to be cdrecord." i've tried to get it working using my now defunct knowledge of cdrecord. [root@semaphore cjb]# dvdrecord -scanbus dvdrtools v0.1.4 Portions (c) 2002-2003 Ark Linux <bero@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Based on: Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jïg Schilling dvdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver. dvdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. what gives? cdrecord -scanbus works fine. dvdrecord speed=5 dev=1,1,0 -dummy /tmp/KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-17-EN.iso dvdrtools v0.1.4 Portions (c) 2002-2003 Ark Linux <bero@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Based on: Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jïg Schilling scsidev: '1,1,0' scsibus: 1 target: 1 lun: 0 dvdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/sg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver. dvdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. also "cdrecord -prcap dev=/dev/cdrom1" tells me that my max write speed for dvd+-r is 4x. what the hell, my dvd burner is an 8x burner and works fine at that speed in windows. luckily k3b abstracts away all this technical bs for me, but still even k3b errors out when i try to burn at 8x: :-( Failed to change write speed: 5408->10816. can anyone give any good info on how to write dvd+-r in fedora core 2 and why it only writes at 4x in linux? thank you for the help.
