Writing to DVD+RW's

[Peter McDermott]

Filippos Klironomos wrote:

>>Is there a way to
>>mount a dvd+rw in writable mode so that I can mv and cp files to it from
>>bash? Do I have install a package and if so do you recommend any in
>>particular?
>>
>>    
>>
>
>This pertains to a previous question I asked about UDF filesystem.
>Unfortunately  it seems to be under development yet to use a CDRW or
>DVD/RW like that. Check out:
>
>http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=173263
>
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-udf/
>
>So the short answer is, it is doable but you have to patch your kernel
>for it. I currently don't have the time to experiment but if you feel
>like it you can go ahead and then post on the list to let everybody
>know! :-)
>
>  
>
Hey thanks for the help! I'm thinking about trying the patch but it does 
look like an involved process. I found and was able to install k3b which 
looks great however I ran into a problem: my dvd drive is listed as a 
reader not as a writer. The drive's name as described in k3b is 
HL-DT-ST-DVD+RW-GCA-4040N. Is it safe to assume that without the 
patching you suggested k3b won't recognize my dvd+rw drive as anything 
more than a dvd-rom device?

P.S. installing k3b rpm's with yum requires some work... updating the 
yum.conf with a new download location:

[xcyb-stable]
name=Fedora Core 2 ( xcyborg / stable )
baseurl=http://rpms.xcyb.org/fedora/2/stable/

And installing two rpms yum can't find manually:

id3lib-3.8.3-5.fr.i386.rpm
libmad-0.15.1b-3.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm

Then just run "yum k3b" and away you go.