[NBLUG/talk] Re: CD/DVD question (Bill Kendrick)

[Todd Cary]

Jim -

I have the internal Sony DRU-510A, but it is running on my Windoze box 
and I am using Nero software.  Due to my digital photography passion and 
6 MB images, I had to get something that held more than 650 MB.  
Currently I am using it as +R - not because I made a decision based on 
research - rather it was because those were the disks I bought :-) .  
Later, I find that there are some formatting advantages for the +RW (I 
do not have to format the whole disk first).  However, I have not found 
a really good use for 4.7 GB RW DVD's other than testing a burn before 
putting it on a +R disk.

For backups, I use removable HD's plus having my data HD RAIDed - the 
DVD is just too slow.

Todd


Jim Bianchi wrote:

>Bill Kendrick wrote:
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>>That is correct.  I've burned a whopping ONE disc (4.5GB's worth of data)
>>using mkisofs followed by cdrecord-ProDVD (the DVD software you
>>mentioned). I have an internal Sony DRU-510A DVD+-RW.
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>	Thanks, Bill, ME, and everyone else who responded. I was unaware
>so many DVD formats existed (DVD[1-9], DVD+, DVD RW, and so on).
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>>Seemed to work! Ironically, I still haven't set up the system
>>(Debian/Woody) with the DVD burner to be able to READ DVDs. (Data or
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>movies (via Mplayer))
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>>However, my wife's laptop (also Debian/Woody) has a DVD-ROM drive, and
>>has used it to play DVD movies (via MPlayer).
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>	I've a DVD drive on my laptop (RH8), and can use mplayer to view
>DVDs (big whoop! They play ever so much better on my DVD/TV thingie, but
>heyyy).
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>>I able to successfully mount and suck files off the drive.
>>Worked like a charm!
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>	Ok, I'll have a looksee at that s'ware you mentioned above. How
>much (ballpark) did that Sony DRU-510A DVD+-RW drive cost? Would you
>recommend it? (4.5g is quite large enough).
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