I tried growisofs as well and got an error: jpschewe at jon:/scratch >ll /dev/hdc brw-rw----+ 1 jpschewe disk 22, 0 2006-07-31 06:50 /dev/hdc jpschewe at jon:/scratch >growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdc=tapes4.iso Executing 'builtin_dd if=tapes4.iso of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 12:46 -0500, jim scott wrote: > I've had success with growisofs burning DVD video. I've never tried it > with data, but I assume it works the same. My only problem has been > that growisofs can't tell my burner to work at 8x speed. > > If you have built your ISO, gnome-baker has also worked for me. I > think it is a front end for growisofs. > > > On 8/15/06, Munir Nassar <tclug at beitsahour.net> wrote: > > Jon Schewe wrote: > > I got a new machine and it has a DVD burner on it. I've got > some blank > > DVD-R discs that I used with my laptop DVD burner. When I > try and use > > them with my desktop cdrecord complains that the disc is > unusable. Is > > this a +/- issue? How do I figure out which my drive > supports? > > No it is probably a cdrecord issue, the author subsidizes his > opensource > work with selling a commercial version of cdrecord that > supperts media > larger that 1gig (meaning DVDs) and yes there are unofficial > ports of > cdrecord but most distributions i've tried did not use them. > > Those that i have used of the unofficial ports were buggy and > produced > coasters but there was one application that did work for me, > growisofs. > > Yes the name does not say burn but it does burn DVDs as > needed, read the > man page. Writing DVDs under linux is finicky at best; try, > try and try > again. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > -- > http://ThreeWayNews.blogspot.com > Your source. For everything. Really. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list ________________________________________________________________________ Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe If you see a signature.asc file attached to the message this is my digital signature. See http://www.gnupg.org for more information. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060815/81a7d518/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060815/81a7d518/attachment.pgp