Re: Help: Burning multisession DVD+R with cdrecord 2.01.01a37

[Eric Wanchic <ewanchic@qwest.net>]

Thanks for replying.(^_^)

Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
> > I've moved from growisofs [...] to wodim,
> > finally to cdrecord cdrecord 2.01.01a37.
> >     
>
> What was the reason to give up growisofs ?
>
> It is supposed to do multi-session on DVD+R if
> you do not use options -dvd-compat or -dvd-video.
>   

Reason 1: I read the man page and I did exactly what it stated, and it 
wasn't working for me. Please see my current posting (5 days old) on 
ubuntuforums - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4288486

No body could really help me with this issue. But as you will see I 
didn't stop there. I also began to analyze K3B's debugging output. I had 
the most difficult time trying to find any more documentation that 
wasn't already included in the man pages, or through google searches to 
see what it was I could be doing wrong.

Reason 2: I finally went to |#cdrkit| on |irc.oftc.net |and waited four 
days before I finally got a response. One of the chat members stated:
1. I see you have found one of our bugs. I think we are long overdue 
for an upgrade.
2. Sorry, I can't help you. I've never worked with multisession DVD +Rs.
3. Why don't you try 
http://www.mail-archive.com/cdwrite@other.debian.org/info.html. They 
might be able to help you.

Reason 3: I see there is a really big mess right now with this whole 
wodim - cdrecord - growisofs - genimageiso, whatever. All I want is to 
burn a multisessin DVD+R win a command line environment so I can do 
backups. Whatever I can get to work, thats fine. Basicly, after spending 
a week with growisofs / genimageiso and getting no-where, I'm tryng 
something else I haven't tried before. I'm reading and trying as much as 
I intellectually can before I ask for help. I was able to get a lot 
further in cdrecord, but however I can get this done, that's what I'll do.

>   
> > cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=2,0,0 -eject -multi -tao -data track_01.iso
> >     
>
> With program cdrskin these options would do
> multi-session resp. leave the media appendable.
>
> cdrskin (i am its author):
>   http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/cdrskin_eng.html
> Source tarball
>   http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/cdrskin-0.4.2.pl00.tar.gz
> Installation instructions:
>   http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/README_cdrskin
> 32-bit static x86 binary (if suitable for you):
>   http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/cdrskin_0.4.2.pl00-x86-suse9_0-static.tar.gz  
> As Debian package i would recommend
>   http://packages.debian.org/sid/cdrskin 
> (What Debian classifies as "stable" is heavily outdated
> and can only burn CD. 0.4.2 is the most stable cdrskin.
> Needed for DVD+R is at least cdrskin-0.3.6.)
>
>   
I research on this and try it too.

> Have a nice day :)
>   
Thanks.

Eric