Recommended DVD burning tool in SLE10
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Environment
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Situation
You may get a message similar to the following:
cdrecord-dvd: Found DVD media: using cdr_mdvd.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 1409024 = 1376 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
cdrecord-dvd: Drive does not support TAO recording.
cdrecord-dvd: Illegal write mode for this drive.
When infact your drive does support TAO the DVD patch for cdrecord-dvd does not know or recognize that it does.
Resolution
Please use the following command to burn a DVD with growisofs:
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=some_file.iso
(some_file.iso is the path and file name to the ISO image you are burning)
Attention: You may have to change the device being used from /dev/dvd to whatever your system recognizes.
Additional Information
Disclaimer
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- Document ID:7004548
- Creation Date: 29-Sep-2009
- Modified Date:03-Mar-2020
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