[NTLUG:Discuss] DVD writing problems.

[david]

Steve Baker wrote:
>
> I think a lot of people who are following this thread are confused - I'm 
> not talking
> about the difference between +R and +RW - I'm talking about -RW versus +RW.
>
>
> Nearly everyone who has tried to help me has confused the two!    It 
> really matters
> whether you have PLUS or MINUS disks.  
>
> This Pioneer DVD drive that I'm having all of the problems with claims to
> be able to read and write BOTH technologies.  But in practice, it only 
> writes
> +R and +RW disks - but it fails to detect -R and -RW disks when the drive
> door closes.
>
>    -- Steve.
>
>
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You are correct about the + - discs.What you are not seeing is that the 
version of cdrecord in Suse 9.3 does not have support for -R -RW.

Snip from OpenSuse forum:
" Output from cdrecord when run from a command line in SuSE Linux 10.0."
" cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support
code.
cdrecord: If you need DVD-R/DVD-RW support, ask the Author for
cdrecord-ProDVD."

K3B requirements: #4 dvd+rw-tools
http://k3b.plainblack.com/requirements

Software changes Suse 9.3:
4.2.4.10. DVD Burning
"In the past, a patch was applied to the |cdrecord| binary from the 
|cdrecord| package to support burning DVDs. Instead, a new binary 
|cdrecord-dvd| is installed that has this patch. The |growisofs| program 
from the |dvd+rw-tools| package can now burn all DVD media (DVD+R, 
DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RL). Try using that one instead of the 
patched |cdrecord-dvd|"

You can always uninstall if it does not work.