On Saturday 04 June 2005 05:08, Mark Jarvis wrote:
I have an NEC DVD-RW ND2500A (that's not the label I bought it under, but that's what it really is.) It's supposed to read/write CDs, DVDs, DVD+Rs, and DVD-Rs. I'm basically dual booting between XP and CentOS 4.
Following the recipe in "The Linux Cookbook", I tried to copy a DVD using: cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd fs=32m -sao -v -eject -dummy /tmp/diskfile.iso to test and
The cdrecord program only supports DVD-R format, not DVD+R. For that you need to use growisofs, which is what k3b uses to deal with DVD+R media. Also, you would be better off using readcd instead of dd; dd is fairly dumb about error handling, but readcd knows how to deal with it. If you have KDE installed k3b does a fine job of making copies. However, it must be run as root under CentOS 4 (in my experience at least) or writing doesn't work at all.