Re: DVDRW: Please help!

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On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 08:44:56AM +0800, csj wrote:
> At Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:58:37 -0400,
> Jeff Elkins wrote:
> > 
> > OK, I'm bummed.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > DVD-RW (don't have any DVD-R's) seems to work fine under
> > linux. However, DVD +RW/DVD+R discs produce a coaster every
> > time. However, both are "perfect" when I boot Windows 98
> > SE. Not that that does me a damn bit of good :(
> 
> Why not try: "dvd+rw-tools" (debian packaged, reportedly has
> better support for +RW than even cdrecord-prodvd)?

I use cdrecord-prodvd.
Go get
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu
and
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/cdrecord-wrapper.sh
and read
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/VERSIONS

I've burned 4x DVD-R, 2.4x DVD+RW, and 4x DVD+RW with a Sony DRU510A 
drive.  It's worked perfectly -- no coasters at all.

It's definitely not Free software, but damn it it works.