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From: dcmartin@affinitycorp.com (Dan Martin)
Subject: Re: OSR 5.0.7 and DVD compatibility
Date: 14 Nov 2003 07:28:56 -0800 References: <3FB40830.6070907@hotmail.com> <20031113235948.GS14056@sco.com> <20031114013027.GA23940@jpradley.jpr.com>

Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message news:<20031114013027.GA23940@jpradley.jpr.com>...
> Bela Lubkin typed (on Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:59:48PM +0000):
> | C. Coulter wrote:
> | 
> | > I have recently downloaded the updated WD driver for
> | > OSR 5.0.7 (which promises DVD writer compatibility).
> | 
> | ATAPI CD & DVD writer support is in the base OSR507 release.  The "Wd
> | Driver Supplement" you downloaded adds support for >137GB IDE hard
> | drives (only on systems with SCO Update Pack 1 installed).  It does add
> | ATAPI CD/DVD writer support to OSR506, perhaps you were mislead by that
> | in the docs.
> | 
> | > However, after closer reading of the associated man
> | > page, I find that writing CD's/DVD's appears to only
> | > be supported by commercial products such as BackupEdge.
> | > The only noncommercial product mentioned was cdrecord
> | > (which does not have the most recent version, which
> | > supports DVD+RW, available for OSR).
> | > 
> | > Is it possible to use the tools inherent in the operating
> | > system (such as tar or cpio) and/or open source tools
> | > (such as gnu tar or others) to write to CD's/DVD's if
> | > you have the updated WD driver?  Or is the only way to
> | > use a commercial product (yes, I'm aware of the qualitative
> | > differences)?
> | 
> | You don't need a commercial product.  It's true that to date the
> | operating system doesn't include a program to write to CDs & DVDs; the
> | added support in OSR507 is at the driver level, making it possible for
> | such programs to work.
> | 
> | `cdrecord` is available in the SCO Skunkware collection
> | (www.sco.com/skunkware).  It can definitely write to CDs.  I've never
> | figured out whether you _must_ have the DVD-enhanced version to write
> | DVDs, or whether it only adds special DVD features like support for UDF
> | filesystem format.  Maybe someone who actually has a DVD writer can
> | comment...
> |
> | Microlite's BackupEDGE and Lone Star's Lone-Tar support DVD writing.
> | Both are very well regarded by members of this newsgroup.  Both offer
> | time-limited demo versions on their web sites.  You might want to try
> | them and see whether they're worth the money to you.
> 
> I don't have a DVD writer, but I read on the cdrecord home page,
> 
> http://www.fokus.fhg.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
> 
> that "DVD writing support is implemented in cdrecord since march 1998."
> 
> The latest Skunkware version of cdrecord is from source that dates to the
> middle of 2001.
> 
> The current alpha version of cdrecord (2.01a19) compiles readily on OSR
> 5.07, using either cc or gcc.

And here's the good DVD news from Microlite for 506 users.

http://www.microlite.com/DVD506/dvd506.html

I'm sure Lone-tar will be doing the same now with 506.

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Regards,
Dan Martin

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