Hi Dave,
I have found in the past that some DVD writers need a bios / firmware
upgrade to be able to cope with the faster DVD's. Usually this is a
windows program you run which overwrites something inside the DVD
hardware itself, which will then work fine for writing. This is unlikely
to be helpful for your redhat system though... Unless you have it dual
boot?
Cheers,
Graeme
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From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
david lawson (JIC)
Sent: 19 September 2007 11:42
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Subject: [ccp4bb] Archiving onto DVD with RH linux
Dear ccp4BB,
Sorry for the non-ccp4 post.
I have been using a NEC DVD_RW ND-2500A drive to archive onto DVD-Rs
(using 'mkisofs' and 'dvdrecord' commands) from our RH linux system.
This has worked very well with 8x compatible DVD-R disks, but doesn't
recognise the newer 16x disks that only seem to be available now. I
suspect I will need to buy a new drive. I would be grateful of any
recommendations - particularly drives that are likely to be more
'future-proof' if we go to 32x, 64x ...
Thanks in advance,
Dave
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