[wellylug] Re: CDRW & DVD Mount Conflict ?

[Damon Lynch]

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 12:12, John C Barstow wrote:
> The maintainer of cdrecord has a well-documented hostility towards the
> IDE/ATAPI interfaces; for the longest time distro maintainers had to
> patch in support (the base package may still ships with only SCSI
> enabled; I'm too lazy to check.)

Mandrake currently patches in support for DVD writing as well:

$ cdrecord -version
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 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 at mandrakesoft.com>.
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.

Damon