[Wylug-help] Burning a cd-rw - problems

John Hodrien johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Wed Mar 15 20:56:48 GMT 2006


On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Anne Wilson wrote:

> OK - I've got the .iso.  How do I point it at the second drive (hdd)?
> cdrecord -vvvvvvvv -blank=disc /tmp/foo.iso points it at hdc, which is
> DVD-ROM.

-dev=/dev/hdd should work

> In the past I've burned both + and - disks without problems.  I don't know
> whether there is any real likelihood that the drive is developing a fault.
> Let's see whether I can get a burn on any of the CD-RW disks first,.  I may
> have an odd CD+RW one somewhere.

I wasn't meaning to imply + was in any way better than - with DVDs.  I use +
as my standalone DVD player doesn't support -.

jh

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