Re: [Dvdrtools-users] growisofs

[pink]

To make 4 gig images there are a couple of things you need.

One is your operating system file system has to support 4gig files. (Linux
EXT(2/3), FreeBSD(UFS), (other BSDs), Win2k(NTFS), WinXP(NTFS), NT4(NTFS))
(Not sure if Fat32 supports 4 gig files?? but certainly FAT doesn't)

Two is that you have a tool which is capable of making files that are 4 gig
in size. I don't know if mkisofs will do this by default but certainly the
version of mkisofs I compiled up from the dvdrecord package will do this.

In my setup I am using FreeBSd which supports making files bigger that 4
gig. I am using growisofs (from dvd+rw-tools) which in turn uses the version
of mkisofs that I have on my system to make the 'iso image' file from. This
version is as I said from the dvdrecord package and is known to support
large iso images.

I also have a windows binary of mkisofs which is also capable of large ( <
4Gig) files. This is also quite happy to make image files that I can burn to
DVD.


One thing I saw in one of the mails was you use of cdrecord-prodvd. I looked
into this and one of it's restrictions was only making 1 gig images unless
you contected the author for a key (ie it's a demo). This may explain the
issue of 1 gig burns only.

Hope this info is of use to someone.

Pink.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Huntington" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Dvdrtools-users] growisofs


> So can you make 4gb images with growisofs?
>
> Ted
>
>
> address@hidden wrote:
>
> > > I use a patched cdrecord to burn DVD-R and DVD-RW on a NEC ND-1300a
with
> > original firmware 1.05
> > > Works like a charm at 4x speed for -R and 2x for -RW (haven't seen
any -RW
> > 4x)
> > > I still use version 2.01a05 but there is already a patch for the
latest
> > 2.01a16 at
> > > http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~warly/files/cdrtools/archives/
> > >
> > > I also use dvd+rw-tools to burn DVD+RW and again no problem at all at
2.4x
> > speed
> > > I haven't got any DVD+R media, yet.
> > > It is reported that dvd+rw-tools could also burn DVD-RW media but I
> > haven't experimented yet.
> >
> > I'm using dvd+rw-tools (growisofs) to burn images to DVD-R(W) media on a
> > pioneer a04 drive under FreeBSD 4.7
> >
> > from what I've read on dvd+rw-tools the name is simply to indicate it
> > supports the +RW format. Anything it can do under +R(W) it can also do
> > with -R(W) as long as it supports the drive.
> >
> > > Anyway, with a recent patched cdrecord and dvd+rw-tools you can burn
any
> > media under Linux which I think is great,
> > > specially when you do not have _any_ copy of Windows lying around.
> > > I use Gentoo, BTW.
> > >
> > > Haven't touched a WINDow$ box in two years, never seen XP, couldn't
feel
> > better ;-)
> >
> > My mkisofs (on which growisofs, from dvd+rw-tools, depends if you are
> > burning from a filesystem) was from the dvdrecord package. It all seems
to
> > work fine. And not a hint of windows.
> >
> > :)
> >
> > Pink.
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