Re: dvd rw

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

Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> * Abdul Mannan <mannan.mirza@gmail.com> [2007-05-24 14:20:36 +0500]:
>
> > 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
>
> Have you tried growisofs?

cdrecord works just fine, you should just not use a bastardized version.

Jörg

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