Re: DVD+R DL disk

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thanks

On Sat, Jun 8, 2024 at 6:30 PM Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > Wow -- Thanks.
> >
> >
> > I was playing with 'cd-info'.
> > What can I use here?  I did this:
> >
> > gandalf# cd-info
> > cd-info
> > cd-info version 2.1.0 x86_64--netbsd
> > Copyright (c) 2003-2005, 2007-2008, 2011-2015, 2017 R. Bernstein
> > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> > There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> > PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> > CD location   : /dev/rcd0d
> > CD driver name: NetBSD
> >    access mode: no access method
> >
> > Vendor                      : ASUS
> > Model                       : DRW-24F1ST   d
> > Revision                    : 1.00
> > Hardware                                  : CD-ROM or DVD
>
> [snip]
>
> > Disc mode is listed as: DVD+R DL
> > ++ WARN: error in ioctl(CDIOREADTOCHEADER): Invalid argument
> >
> > cd-info: Can't get first track number. I give up.
> > gandalf#
> >
>
>
> I have never used cd-info...  the output for the modes seems lacking...
> there are more modes in the world than it mentions...  just install
> cdrecord and ask it (it supports everything from CDs to BR media and
> pretty much all modes of DVD anything), or try to burn something greater
> than 4.5GB and less than 8GB with cdrecord (a quirk in cdrecord is that
> if your image you are burning would fit on a DVD+R media and you have a
> DVD+R DL media in the drive, it will complain at you letting you know
> that your image would fit on the smaller media and maybe not allow the
> burn).  Or, you can do a net search using your favorite search engine on
> the model of the drive.  A very brief search on 'DRW-24F1ST' shows that
> device to be a multidrive and it appears to be able to deal with DVD+R
> DL media just fine (newegg seems to think so, in any case).
>
> Since you have +R or +R DL media you will be doing the "take a image and
> burn the whole thing" ... the same would be true for -R or -R DL media,
> sort of thing.  If you had +RW (especially) or -RW media (maybe) you
> could get away with using growisofs (in the dvd+rw-tools package in
> pkgsrc) that would let you append to the read/write media.
>
>
>
> --
> Brad Spencer - brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org