DVD burning -- correct syntax?

[Nigel Henry]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 17:05, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 10:16 -0400, Doug Stewart wrote:
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> > Mitja Mihelic wrote:
> > > here's what I use to burn backups on DVDs:
> > > growisofs -Z /dev/cdrom -R -J /path/to/folder
> > > or
> > > growisofs -Z /dev/cdrom=image.iso
> > > when burning a folder I use -R for Rock-Ridge and -J for Joliet
> > > extensions (no need for mkisofs here :)
> > > when burning an ISO image, I presume it has already been created with
> > > Rock-Ridge and Joliet.
> >
> > The -J is the critical flag. Please make sure you use that when creating
> > your ISO.
>
> Hi all,
>
> After some checking just now, I think I found the problem: my DVD drive
> now sees recordable DVD disks as invalid media. I'm going to run a
> simple test a little later tonight to see if it is indeed a hardware
> problem on the DVD drive. The DVD drive worked well for me before --
> over 1 year ago. I had not used it for many months.

I appreciate your problem, and I'm sorry I can't help with it. I hope that the 
"simple test" doesn't involve a large hammer, and the DVD drive.

Nigel.