How is DVD different than CD?

[john_gore at yahoo.com]

Turns out that the DVD player was bad - even after
updating it. An all too obvious of a check was to put
in a bootable DVD - it didnt work...

- John

--- Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 11:48 -0800,
> john_gore at yahoo.com wrote:
> > Thanks, Here's the output of cdrecord -prcap
> > -dev=/dev/dvd
> > 
> > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
> Copyright
> > (C) 1995-2004 Jrg Schill
> > ing
> > Note: This version is an unofficial (modified)
> version
> > with DVD support
> > Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not
> present
> > in the original.
> > Note: Please send bug reports or support requests
> to
> > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
> > bugzilla
> > Note: The author of cdrecord should not be
> bothered
> > with problems in this versio
> > n.
> > scsidev: '/dev/dvd'
> > devname: '/dev/dvd'
> > scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
> > Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
> > Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> > cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg
> transport
> > code version (schily - Red
> > Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c  
>    
> >  1.83 04/05/20 Copyright
> > 1997 J. Schilling').
> > Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
> > Version        : 0
> > Response Format: 1
> > Vendor_info    : 'ATAPI   '
> > Identifikation : 'DVD RW 8XMax    '
> > Revision       : '150D'
> > Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
> > 
> > Drive capabilities, per MMC-3 page 2A:
> > 
> >   Does read CD-R media
> >   Does write CD-R media
> >   Does read CD-RW media
> >   Does write CD-RW media
> >   Does read DVD-ROM media
> >   Does read DVD-R media
> >   Does write DVD-R media
> >   Does not read DVD-RAM media
> >   Does not write DVD-RAM media
> >   Does support test writing
> 
> Looks like that hardware is responding OK then.
> 
> You *should* be able to mount a DVD-ROM using:
> 
> # mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/dvd /mnt/cdrom
> 
> If that doesn't work I'm out of ideas I'm afraid.
> 
> Paul.
> -- 
> Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> 
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