Subject: Re: DVD drives
To: Bob Nestor <rnestor@metronet.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/26/1999 21:58:21
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Bob Nestor wrote:
: I thought DVD-ROM disks had more capacity than CDRs and CD-RWs. If so
: wouldn't this be a probem? As far as I know there are no switches in
: either mkisofs or mkhybrid to specify the size of the target volume, and
: I know from personal experience both programs will complain if the output
: is larger than about 650Meg.
mkisofs doesn't complain; at least, it's never had a problem attempting to
write a 1.1Gb image file (when I wasn't watching how full my staging area
was... :).
cdrecord complains, but I'm pretty sure that's only for CD drives. UTSL.
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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)