Re: [slightly OT] dvdrecord 0.3.1 -- and yes, dev=/dev/cdrom works ;)

[Jesper Juhl]

On 2/26/06, Luke-Jr <luke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sunday 26 February 2006 13:29, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > On 2/26/06, Luke-Jr <luke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Friday 24 February 2006 23:42, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> > > > I've just released dvdrtools 0.3.1
> > > > (http://www.arklinux.org/projects/dvdrtools/). It is a fork of cdrtools
> > > > that (as the name indicates) adds support for writing to DVD-R and
> > > > DVD-RW disks using purely Free Software,
> > >
> > > also DVD+R/RW/DL, I hope?
> >
> > And what about DVD-RAM drives? Any plans to support those?
>
> My [limited] understanding of DVD-RAM drives was that they are basically
> removable block devices... you wouldn't need a recording program for that,
> you'd use it like a floppy.
>
I guess you are right. I haven't used a DVD-RAM device in a few years,
I just seem to recall that when I last used one on an AIX pSeries
machine I had to use some burner software to dump data on it - I may
remember wrong though.

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