Re: [Cdrtools-support] Problem with growisofs -- cannot write multisession DVDs without ejecting and reloading tray

[Joerg S. <Joe...@fo...>]

"Richardson, Eric J" <eri...@lm...> wrote:

> I am hoping that someone can help me with my growisofs problem.  It's not really a Debian problem, but the author:
> http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
> suggests I start here anyway.
>
> I have a (relatively new) server that we used to run Solaris 10 update 7 on.  On this system, we would perform backups of certain log files every day to DVD.  For this, we used:


Do you know that growisofs is unmaintained since 7 years?

> Now we are in the process of moving to Red Hat 6.6.  I don't think there's anything special about Red Hat, as I was able to duplicate the problem on Slackware 14.1, but that's the system we are trying to work with.  Since I'd heard about troubles with the 'genisoimage' program that ships with Red Hat (and Debian, and Ubuntu), I went ahead and downloaded a cdrtools RPM from this helpful fellow:
> http://negativo17.org/cdrtools/
> and I also removed the 'fake' cdrtools that comes with Red Hat, just to be safe.  So, now we are using Red Hat with a kernel of:
> Linux 2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64
>
> Mkisofs is:
> mkisofs 3.01a27 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-1997 Eric Youngdale (C) 1997-2015 Joerg Schilling
>
> Growisofs is:
> * growisofs by <ap...@fy...>, version 7.1,
>   front-ending to mkisofs: mkisofs 3.01a27 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-1997 Eric Youngdale (C) 1997-2015 Joerg Schilling
>
> And, in case you were curious, cdrecord is:
> Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.01a27 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2015 Joerg Schilling

If you have a recent cdrtools installed, why don't you use it for writing?

Unlike growisofs, cdrtools is actively maintained.

If you have problems with cdrtools, this can be fixed....

You would need to send a bug report -  I am not aware of problems in the recent 
version.

Jörg

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