[Wylug-help] dvd/cdrecord grief (IDE vs IDE-SCSI?)

[Dr A V Le Blanc]

Dave Fisher <davef at gbdirect.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm getting weird behaviour out of a CD/DVD writer at work.  It seems
> happy to recognise and write CDs, but not DVDs. 
...
> P.S. I was especially irritated by these messages:
>  cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
>  cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.

You might try cdrdao instead; I know it works better for CDs with
certain recent 2.6 kernels than cdrecord, but I'm not certain
that it works with DVDs, though of course it should.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc at mcc.ac.uk