Re: Trouble burning DVD

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com> writes:

> On 1/1/06, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> wrote:
>> * Christopher Browne
>>
>> | I am having zero luck burning DVDs (stupid system backups!) on my AMD 64 system
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> | wolfe:/proc/ide# cdrecord  -v dev=ATAPI:4,0,0 speed=4
>> | /brownes/knuth/compiles/backups/cbhome.iso
>>
>> If this actually is a DVD, I would much rather recommend growisofs,
>> part of dvd+rw-tools.
>>
>> growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=/brownes/knuth/compiles/backups/cbhome.iso
>> should work fine.
>
> Cool.  That's doing the trick both with /dev/sr0 and /dev/hdd...
>
> Thanks much.
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Don't use /dev/sr0 with anything newer than 2.6.5. Don't load the
ide-scsi module at all but just use the native ide/atapi device
(/dev/hdd).

MfG
        Goswin