DVD burning with mkisofs and cdrecord?

[Rick Stevens]

Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to create a DVD+R with mkisofs and cdrecord?
> 
> I have trashed my first blank trying to burn in -dummy mode but
> unfortunately this was sileently ignored by cdrecord.
> 
> Here are the commands I used for creating and burning the image:
> mkisofs -J -r -V 'XXX' >DVD.iso
> cdrecord -dao -eject -v DVD.iso
> 
> Burning succeeded but I cannot mount the resulting disc:
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> hdc: rw=0, want=68, limit=4
> isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16

Most DVD+-R drives don't like "dao".  I've been successful using
"-sao".  Also, "growisofs" works well if all you want is a DVD and don't
need an ISO image at the end:

	growisofs -Z /dev/hdc -r -J -V 'volumeid' /dir/of/files

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