How is DVD different than CD?

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 11:48 -0800, john_gore at yahoo.com wrote:
> Thanks, Here's the output of cdrecord -prcap
> -dev=/dev/dvd
> 
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright
> (C) 1995-2004 Jrg Schill
> ing
> Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version
> with DVD support
> Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present
> in the original.
> Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
> bugzilla
> Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered
> with problems in this versio
> n.
> scsidev: '/dev/dvd'
> devname: '/dev/dvd'
> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport
> code version (schily - Red
> Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c      
>  1.83 04/05/20 Copyright
> 1997 J. Schilling').
> Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
> Version        : 0
> Response Format: 1
> Vendor_info    : 'ATAPI   '
> Identifikation : 'DVD RW 8XMax    '
> Revision       : '150D'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
> 
> Drive capabilities, per MMC-3 page 2A:
> 
>   Does read CD-R media
>   Does write CD-R media
>   Does read CD-RW media
>   Does write CD-RW media
>   Does read DVD-ROM media
>   Does read DVD-R media
>   Does write DVD-R media
>   Does not read DVD-RAM media
>   Does not write DVD-RAM media
>   Does support test writing

Looks like that hardware is responding OK then.

You *should* be able to mount a DVD-ROM using:

# mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/dvd /mnt/cdrom

If that doesn't work I'm out of ideas I'm afraid.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>