Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Help with Sony DRX-500ULX drive

[Robert M. Stockmann]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:

> > I have DRX-500UL and can only use growisofs.  I could not get cdrecord
> > -prodvd, dvdrecord, or mkudfs to work and I really want to use udf with
> > DVD+R.
> 
> I have burnt DVD-RW successfully with
> 
> Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
> Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a12 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 
> Jörg Schilling
> Unlocked features: ProDVD Clone 
> Limited  features: speed 
> This copy of cdrecord is licensed for: 
> private/research/educational_non-commercial_use
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
> scsibus0:
>       0,0,0     0) 'SONY    ' 'DVD RW DRU-500A ' '2.0c' Removable CD-ROM
> 
> SuSE 8.2, kernel 2.4.20, ieee1394 interface.
> In fact, once I had the ieee1394 going it was absolutely zero trouble.
> 
> The drive is an external DRX-500ULX, firmware 2.0c. As the internal ID
> shows, the drive itself is identical to the IDE version (surprise
> surprise).
> 
> You can use udf now, if you create the filesystem in a file and
> loopmount it. Then you write the file as diskimage using your favourite
> method. Of course, DVD+RW packet writing is nicer (anyone got this
> going with Sony DRX-500ULX/???-500???, and/or Ricoh MP5125A ?)
> 

Hi,

did you also try the Sony DRX-500ULX USB2 drive with the OSS DVD extensions
for cdrtools-2.0 ? :

http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd.html

and more specificly with this RPM :

http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd/RPMS/suse82/cdrecord-ossdvd-2.0-130.i586.rpm

thanks,

Robert
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