Re: cdrecord problems
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
> > Paragraph 4.3.7 "DVD+R Dual Layer" is much more detailed
> > about the layer hop. Nevertheless there is a statement
> > which makes me believe it is worth a try to just write
> > to it as to a fat DVD+R.
> >
>
> That seems to work. I did some backups that way, creating big files and
> just burning them. I believe I used growisofs but I can't be sure after
> the fact. Reading the data back produced no read errors and a correct
> md5sum, I did wipe the original and test restore, though. ;-)
As you don't know what you did, it is a good idea not to believe you...
Not setting the layer break on DVD+R/DL may work in principle but it causes a
lot of headaches. If you do not set the layer break, you need to write both
complete surfaces.
Jörg
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