Writing CDs on a DVD drive.

[Malcolm Kay]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:32 am, guru at sisis.de wrote:
> El día Thursday, March 02, 2006 a las 11:29:31PM +1030, Malcolm 
Kay escribió:
> > It is not very clear what utilities are capable of writing R
> > or RW CDs on a multipurpose optical drive. It seems that
> > burncd doesn't do this and the man pages for growisofs talks
> > of specific DVD media types but not CDs.
>
> 	...
>
> I'm using
>
> # mkisofs -r -T -v -o cdimage.iso dir
> # burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s max data cdimage.iso fixate
>
> to burn CD's and
>
> # growisofs  -Z /dev/cd0 -r -T -v dir
>
> to burn DVD's on the same physical device.
>
> 	matthias

Thanks Matthias.

I thought I had tried burncd some time ago on the DVD
drive without success. Probably I was mistaken.

Malcolm