[KLUG Members] CD / DVD burning

[Bruce Smith]

> How can I burn a 2.9 GB file to a DVD.
> mkisofs reports that the file is ignored because it is too large.

Is it really mkisofs that's giving the error, or cdrecord?  I ran
mkisofs on my SuSE 9.2 system on a 2.5GB file and it works fine.

> The mkisofs says the -udf option is alpha and doesn't really do real UDF
> structures yet. Is this safe to use for database backups?

I didn't give mkisofs the -udf option and it worked.

> I'm using Suse 9.1  Is there a better way to make DVDs now.

Upgrade to SuSE 9.2.

> Also, under rh9 I used the ide_scsi module and dvdrecord specifying up
> to 8x speed. 
> Under Suse 9.1 dvdrecord doesn't seem to be included 

SuSE 9.1 came with a patched version of cdrecord that was suppose to
support DVD's.  I've always had better luck using growisofs instead.

SuSE 9.2 tells you to use growisofs for DVD's instead of cdrecord.

> and it doesn't seem to use ide_scsi anymore. 

That is obsolete with the 2.6 kernel.

> K3b only burns up to 4x now. 

k3b seems to sense the drive and only display speeds it supports
(at least on SuSE 9.2).  There is an "ignore" option that may work 
if it senses the wrong max speed.

> Is the ide interface slowing it down? 
> Should I use the ide_scsi to try and speed it up?

Don't use the ide_scsi module with a 2.6 kernel.

 - BS