[KLUG Members] writing dvd

[Bert]

Stu Gillis wrote:

>> 
>> 
>>I have a NEC 1100ND dvd burner that I want to use as a backup 
>>media. I have tried many ways to create a dvd but I seem not to be 
>>able to get a dvd written. 
>> 
>>xcdroast gives up after a few seconds, ... 
>>    
>>
> 
>This was on the suse mail list this morning: 
>" you can use x-cdroaster  
>once configured correctly with some extra stuff you can burn DVDs too.  
>I've been doing it for a year now, backing up all my data on DVDs. 
> 
>Required Software can be found on: 
> 
>http://www.xcdroast.org 
> 
>you will also need 
> 
>ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ 
> 
>and 
> 
>ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ 
> 
>and 
> 
>http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/README.ProDVD.txt 
> 
>you can use x-cdroaster  
>once configured correctly with some extra stuff you can burn DVDs too.  
>I've been doing it for a year now, backing up all my data on DVDs. 
> 
>Required Software can be found on: 
> 
>http://www.xcdroast.org 
> 
>you will also need 
> 
>ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ 
> 
>and 
> 
>ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ 
> 
>and 
> 
>http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/README.ProDVD.txt " 
> 
>Hope this helps. 
> 
>Stu 
> 
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I had tried all this. But I decided to do it all over again and follow 
the links you mentioned. Unfurtunally it does not work. There seems to 
be a small change in the licence but the major problem that no dvd gets 
burned stays. The player still ejects after a few seconds and error 
messages are displayed. I am sorry to say that I have run out of time to 
get it working. I have installed the dvd-writer in some (populair?) 
closed environment. Have not burned dvd's yet, so I can't tell you if it 
works. I am hoping somewhat that a hardware defect turns up but on the 
other hand I need to get bruning fast. There is some 60GB waiting to get 
burned before I can take a vacation. After that I will try again and let 
will you know when I succeed.

The dvd device is an atapi so no driver is needed (I contacted NEC), if 
so, can I just dd data into the device driver and dd it out again? I 
don't really need a Table of Contents on the disk I just want to backup 
data. Have anyone ever tried this on a dvd/cd-writer?


Bert.