Writing CDs on a DVD drive.

[Malcolm Kay]

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.

Is cdrecord a suitable tool for this purpose?

And a (sort of) related question, will growisofs write double or 
dual layer DVDs? The man page does make mention of a write limit 
of 4+GB but I see this can be turned off. Is this enough to 
enable writing dual/double layer medis?

Are there more suitable utilities executing these tasks? I'm not 
looking for GUI wrappers for command line utilities but the base 
level utilities.

Any help appreciated.

Malcolm Kay