DVD-R/W In Unix? 25
Vilorman asks: "So has
anyone been successful at writing DVD's in Unix? At work, we're
primarily a Solaris shop and we just got an IDE CD-RW working but
it's a little small. We need to archive a four gig filesystem and
DVD sounds like the way to go. I do have a few concerns:
how well does Solaris or Linux supoort the DVD media; and what type of
drive works best under either OS (IDE, SCSI, Firewire, etc)? I've
found IDE and FireWire drives but SCSI DVR-R/W still seems to be a
little scarce. One would assume (from looking at the code) that Schilly's
CD-Record and mkisofs would get the job done with a DVD, right?"
Yes (Score:3, Informative)
Of course, with the new Linux kernel there is native DVD-RAM support. I can't swear to Solaris but, I'm pretty sure it's in there too. Use IDE, it's cheaper, more readily available and just as fast.
Here (Score:0, Informative)
easy (Score:2, Informative)
DVD+RW on Linux [chalmers.se]
"It depends." (Score:4, Informative)
Ah, yes, that old favorite answer. Unfortunately, it's true in this case.
Some points of note:
I would love it if someone could disprove any of the above; I have a QPS (Que!) external Firewire drive (the Pioneer DVD-A03 stuffed into a firewire enclosure) that I really wish was more reliable in Linux than it is right now. Packet writing would be lovely. As it stands now, I can write DVD-Rs okay with the free patched cdrecord, but the only DVD-RW media that's writable in Linux seems to be the one that shipped with the drive. Nothing else has worked :(