Re: dvd rw

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

"Abdul Mannan" <mannan.mirza@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have redhat linux 9 running.
> I have attached DVD+RW to this machine.
> Now I have to backup some data , but it is giving error
> "dvdrecord: Cannot open new session"
>
> prior to this I was using CD RW and taking backup via this command.
>  #cdrecord --dev=2,0,0 --blank=all
>

Do not use defective forks of the software but use the original from:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/

Send a bug report to Redhat and explain them that you like the original instead
if a bastardized version.

Jörg

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