[Debburn-devel] Re: wodim -msinfo returns 0, 0 for first DVD session

[Mike Cornelison]

Thanks for your help. I am satisfied with growisofs, but for a few 
weaknesses, e.g. software must wait a few seconds after growisofs 
finishes before trying to mount the drive, or retry the mount with delays.

wodim -abort is the only way I have found so far to reset a DVD drive 
left in a hung-up condition because of some error. Lib function 
ioctl("/dev/dvd",CDROMRESET) seems to do nothing in this case. I must be 
missing basic information about how to do stuff with CD/DVD drives but I 
don't know where to look.


Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> * Eduard Bloch [Mon, Apr 09 2007, 01:10:50PM]:
>
>   
>> If you need real multisession, go for DVD-RW which can work in
>> restricted-overwrite mode but also in in CD-like sequential mode.
>>     
>
> Sorry, I was mistaken. AFAICS creating additional sessions does not work
> with DVD-RW and wodim either, nor with growisofs or cdrecord. I suggest
> staying with DVD+RW and growisofs, unless we add similar features to
> cdrkit.
>
> Actually we need generic support to start writting at any position on
> DVD+RW, and some code or maybe just a wrapper application for
> genisoimage and wodim (or maybe cdrskin) to adapt the isofs header.
>
> Currently I do not feel much motivation to do that either, growisofs is
> a great and mature tool.
>
> Regards,
> Eduard.
>
>