CD/DVD writer woes

[Jason Stephenson]

I know I'm coming late to the party, but....

Paul Lussier wrote:
> "Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>> An older version of cdrecord sees both drives, but can't write to it ...
>>   So what does it being a newer version of cdrecord/wodim have to do
>> with the problem?
> 
> I can only find 2 versions of the software in the debian archives, the
> one in stable and the one in testing (I haven't looked in unstable).
> 
> The older (stable) version can see one of the drives but not write to
> it.  The newer (testing) version can't do either.
> 

I highly recommend getting the *real* cdrecord software from Jorg 
Schilling's site and building it from the tarball.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdrecord/


The version in Debian, as it clearly states, is not the actual cdrecord 
from Jorg's cdrtools. There was a license dispute/clash of egos and many 
distros (or was it just Debian?) yanked Jorg's cdrtools package. I 
believe it has something to do with him wanting to charge money for the 
version that can actually burn to DVD. It also has something to do with 
his insistence on maintaining the quaint, SCSI-oriented device numbering.

I'm sure that if you had a version that worked in the past, it was 
Jorg's and not the mangled one that Debian now ships. (I'm not saying 
that the Debian version is no good, but it clearly isn't working in this 
case and the version that did work in the past likely came from one of 
the links at the freshmeat site above.

HTH,
Jason