Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Newbie starting to use dvdrecord

[Bryan J. Smith]

"address@hidden" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 1) with DVD+RWs it desn't seem to work at all;

DVD+RW do not use linear character recording.
Sony/Philips consortium drives are not designed for this.

Furthermore, you shouldn't use DVD-RW or even CD-RW in that
mode either -- it's not native, and DVD+RW/-RW and CD-RW
aren't a linear spindle, but a pie-slice.

I.e., CD-R and DVD-R are "like a record" (one long grove, end
to end), CD-RW, DVD-RW and DVD+RW are "like a hard drive"
(circles aka cylinders, with sectors like a pie).

> 2) with DVD-Rs it seems to work but takes 7 minutes
>    to copy a 10 bytes trial file!;

What make/model is it?

If you have a Sony/Philips DVD consortium drive you probably
shouldn't be using cdrecord/dvdrecord.

> 3) about the same with DVD-RWs, blanked with:
>    #cdrecord -v dev=/dev/hdc blank=fast

Again, you shouldn't do this.
It's not going to produce a disc that some systems can read.


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