Thanks for replying. I'm doing this on Suse 9.3 with a stock kernel. Burning other DVD media works fine. But if it's supposed to be that slow, maybe I'll live with it (or don't use DVD-RAM). But what's with the 3x write speed, then?

I'm not really sure, and of course there is a risk that we both suffer the same problem, and it's not indeed supposed to be that slow... but I don't know. The thing with DVD-RAM, though, is that it has the longest shelf life of all media. At least that's what I've heard. So that's pretty much the only reasons for using it; good for backups...

Shouldn't you be using the UDF filesystem instead of ext2?

That doesn't really matter, unless you want to be able to read the disk under MS-OSes. AFAIK, you can format the disk in any filesystem you wish, including e.g. reiser4 and NTFS...

DVD-RAM will also read / write FAT32 so you can share it with Windows as well --however if you have a DVD-RAM driver (should have got it with your device) Windows will read / write UDF as well.

DVD-RAM doesn't have to be slow the 3X media are available everywhere and some DVD-RAM devices will go at 6X --faster than the current 4X DVD+RW.

Cheers

-K

Curiouser and curiouser (said Alice).

how to be able to burn on dvd-ram with suse 10?

nothing work for me...


i do a fdsik /dev/dvdram

/sbin/mke2fs /dev/dvdram

all right access:

collinm@linux:~/developpement> ls -ls /dev/dvdram
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2005-10-21 22:58 /dev/dvdram -> hdc
collinm@linux:~/developpement> ls -ls /dev/hdc
0 brw-rw----+ 1 collinm disk 22, 0 2005-10-21 22:58 /dev/hdc
collinm@linux:~/developpement> /sbin/mke2fs /dev/dvdram



my fstab
/dev/dvdram /media/dvdram subfs fs=cdfss,rw,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0

with root i copy a file... don't get an error...

but if i do ctrl-f10, i see udf-fs :no partition found...


thanks to help me