Re: can burn cds but not dvds on F8

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Globe Trotter wrote:
Hi,

I am using cdrecord on F8, wodim:1.1.6-6.fc8

I have been having a strange problem using my cd/dvdwriter. So, I use the following:

cdrecord -v -eject speed=24 dev=/dev/scd1 Fedora-9-i686-Live.iso
which works just fine when writing to a CD-R. However, the same command using
cdrecord -v -eject speed=24 dev=/dev/scd1 Fedora-9-i386-DVD-iso

     does not. Instead, it produces the following:



wodim: No write mode specified.
wodim: Asuming -tao mode.
wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults.

First problem, note that although you requested cdrecord you actually got a forked and hacked version called "wodim," based on an old and obsolete version of cdrecord. It is linked as cdrecord to make you think you have the real thing, but you don't.

Your choices are these:
 (a) use growisofs
 (b) download and compile real cdrecord from
     ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
 (c) use cdrskin

The (b) option will install in /opt/schily/bin, and requires running as root or setuid root, because the program uses vendor-specific commands where needed and the kernel blocks them. I install the real cdrecord as CDrecord, in /usr/local/bin, setuid root. That reminds me it's not the Fedora hack.

I find (a) easier to use in many cases, and (b) to work with a few more burners. I only put (c) last because I haven't used it much, since only cdrecord supports the features needed to burn SVCD video disks.

--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

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