Dan Martin typed (on Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:28:56AM -0800):
| 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/.../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.
|
| Regards,
| Dan Martin


LONE-TAR version 4.0 and greater already has support for ATAPI DVD and CD
writers under SCO 5.0.7. LONE-TAR supports these devices under 5.0.6 with
the installed wd supplement just the same. There are no additional
patches or updates required for LONE-TAR.


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