Ubuntu 7.10 and DVD-RAM

[Ioannis Vranos]

Owen Townend wrote:
> 
> 
> On 23/04/2008, *Ioannis Vranos* <ivranos at freemail.gr
> <mailto:ivranos at freemail.gr>> wrote:
> 
>     Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>     > OS: Ubuntu 7.10 x86.
>     >
>     >
>     > Hi, I have the DVD recorder AD-7203A and it supports DVD-RAM. I got a
>     > TDK DVD-RAM "TYPE IV" 9.4 GB DOUBLE SIDED.
>     >
>     >
>     > However after I formatted it with the command
>     >
>     > mkudffs --utf8 --media-type=dvdram /dev/hda
>     >
>     > it appears as having capacity 4.3 GB.
>     >
>     >
>     > Any info would be welcome.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>     Actually I can't make it work at all, either via Nautilus (the DVD-RAM
>>     disc doesn't appear writeable) or Nero Linux 3.5.0.1
>>     <http://3.5.0.1> (the later hasn't
>>     any DVD-RAM option).
>> 
>> 
>>     Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> 
> Hey,
>   The first issue - capacity - is a simple fix. Physically remove the disk, flip it over, re-insert.


However 4.3* 2< 9.4 GB


>   The other issue is that DVD-RAM disks are recognised as hard disks,
> rather than trying
> Nero, you should be able to navigate to the mount (usually /media/disk
> or similar)


It automounts it under media/cdrom0 as read-only and it doesn't paste.


My /etc/fstab:

john at john-desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/hdc3
UUID=d8190421-05fc-4644-ad51-3164c4a8ab33 /               ext3
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/hdc2
UUID=3d48355b-d6da-475f-a418-be481dbfdf4f /boot           ext3
defaults        0       2
# /dev/hdc1
UUID=7a84ed6b-0635-4380-9e71-b61ea6ca18d1 none            swap    sw
          0       0
/dev/hda        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec 0       0

john at john-desktop:~$


I had modified the line

"dev/hda        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0"

to

"dev/hda     /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 rw, user,noauto,exec 0       0"


and it allowed to paste, but when I tried to paste I got a read-only error.



> and
> read/write directly same as a USB thumb-drive.


Do you use DVD-RAMs? If yes may you post your /etc/fstab?