DVD burning in FC2T1

Paul Iadonisi pri.rhl1 at iadonisi.to
Wed Feb 18 18:44:14 UTC 2004


  Well, most of the problems I've encountered with the FC2T1 (or more
specifically, the 2.6.x kernel) seem to have been covered on this list,
except for one, unless I missed it.
  There appear to be three (well, four, but I'm leaving out cdrdao for
this discussion) CD/DVD burning packages (not including gui front ends)
bundled with the distribution: cdrtools, dvdrtools, and dvd+rw-tools. 
Am I missing something or are none of these appropriate for DVD burning
under the 2.6.x kernel?  From what I can tell, cdrtools (cdrecord) is
only good for CD-R[W] burning, dvdrtools is based on an old version of
cdrtools which doesn't support ATAPI devices, and I think dvd+rw-tools
also expects a scsi device.  There is a patch for the most recent
cdrecord that is supposed to make it work for DVD burning at
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~warly/files/cdrtools/archives/ that
could be applied to solve the problem, but I'm not sure it's the best
approach.
  In case anyone missed it, ide-scsi has been declared broken and is
without a maintainer and Linus believes it is an ugly hack (which I tend
to agree with).  That's why CD/DVD recording utilities now need to
support ATAPI devices.
  So has anyone figured out how to burn DVDs under the 2.6 kernel?
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-Paul Iadonisi
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