thanks Jima, Troy for the replys.
Just burned my first DVD-R data disk with dvdrecord, worked great :)
Will be experimenting with the different media soon, picked up some
DVD+RW.  Will also be looking into making DVD video player compatible
disks.  Have been using VideoCD for a while now, but it is a tad grainy.

scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22
dvdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (bero-0.5a '@(#)scsitransp.c	1.81 01/04/20 Copyright 1988,1995,2000 J. Schilling').
dvdrtools v0.1.4
Portions (c) 2002-2003 Ark Linux <bero at arklinux.org>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
...
Based on:
Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
Using libscg version 'bero-0.5a'
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info    : 'DVDRW   '
Identifikation : 'IDE1004         '
Revision       : '0038'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 1376256 = 1344 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data  4356 MB        
Total size:     5003 MB (495:40.41) = 2230531 sectors
Lout start:     5003 MB (495:42/31) = 2230531 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
  ATIP start of lead in:  -150 (00:00/00)
Disk type:    unknown dye (reserved id code)
Manuf. index: -1
Manufacturer: unknown (not in table)
Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks remaining: 67965

Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... dvdrecord: Turning BURN-Free on
input buffer ready.
trackno=0
BURN-Free is OFF.
Performing OPC...
Sending CUE sheet...
dvdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150
Starting new track at sector: 0
@01T004356
@01:000001
@01:000002
@01:000003
...
@01:004354
@01:004355
@01:004356

Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 4568127488/4568127488 (2230531 sectors).
Writing  time:  838.666s
Fixating...
Fixating time:   20.144s
dvdrecord: fifo had 71953 puts and 71953 gets.
dvdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 27521 times full, min fill was 85%.


On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 04:02:31PM -0600, Jima wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Karl Bongers wrote:
> > Looking for tips on how to test out this new DVD writer I bought.
> 
>  I haven't tried it with -R, but dvd+rw-tools reportedly supports it (in 
> general, dunno about your particular model):
> 
> http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
> 
>  Works great for +R, that I've seen. :)
> 
>      Jima


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