DVD+RW Drive installation

cdhjrt · 10-14-2002, 10:35 AM

Has anybody had experience installing and configuring a DVD +RW drive? I am planning on installing it under Redhat 7.2.

I need to be able to archive data from Solaris 7 systems to DVD's which will be readable on other DVD players. If I understand the reading correctly, DVD +RW will accomplish that. I have not been able to find much about using DVD +RW under operating systems other than Windows and MacOS.

Thanks!

neo77777 · 10-14-2002, 03:53 PM

It is as the same as if you used CD-R/RW, if it is a non-SCSI drive you need to fool the system to think it is a SCSI device with ide-scsi emulation (there is a ton of info about ide-scsi here on these forums, just click the search button on the far right upper corner), and there is dvdr-tools available from http://www.nongnu.org/dvdrtools/ to make the life easier for writting to DVD-R/+RW other formats media.