Re: Routine Running

[Robert Creager <Robert_Creager@LogicalChaos.org>]

When grilled further on (Fri, 2 Apr 2004 19:44:14 -0600),
"Thomas Droege" <tdroege2@earthlink.net> confessed:

> Just running away.  The biggest chore of this project is now writing the
> images to CD.  Eventually I might switch to DVD, but not until I can just
> use something like xcdroast to write them.  Several tries have not worked
> yet.
> 

Hmm...

[robert@thunder archived]$ sudo time growisofs -Z /dev/dvdrw -rJ 2754
...
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 129425
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 108ac4
1057466 extents written (2065 Mb)
/dev/dvdrw: flushing cache
/dev/dvdrw: closing track
/dev/dvdrw: closing session
0.24user 12.97system 11:32.83elapsed 1%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (439major+58minor)pagefaults 0swaps

This is one night of compressed data (2Gb) written to the DVD in 12 minutes.

Then...

[robert@thunder archived]$ sudo time growisofs -M /dev/dvdrw -rJ 2755
...
Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 264442
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 1ad000
2197746 extents written (4292 Mb)
/dev/dvdrw: flushing cache
/dev/dvdrw: closing track
/dev/dvdrw: closing session
0.28user 15.76system 12:01.70elapsed 2%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresi

This is a second night of compressed data (2.3Gb - 4.3Gb total) written to the
same DVD in 12 minutes.

I'm running Mandrake 9.2, and although I have not tried yet, it appears that
cdrecord supports DVD's.  It appears to be a patched version of the 'official'
version:

[robert@thunder robert]$ cdrecord --scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a18-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg
Schilling

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 <warly@mandrakesoft.com>. Note: The
author of cdrecord is not to be bothered with problems in this version. Linux sg
driver version: 3.1.25

Cheers,
Rob

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