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Plextor PX-504/708/716 ATAPI DVD+R/RW
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| John V. Kjellman 2005-04-02, 8:45 pm |
| Plextor offers no LINUX drivers for its DVD+R/RW Atapi drives, but I'm
thinking generic ATAPI support in RedHat 9 might be all I need to use
one of these drives. I'm using EdgeBACKUP 2.1.1 for backups. Am I in
fantasy land regarding the possibility I might be able to use a Plextor
drive? Anybody have any experience with these drives on a RH 9 system?
Thanks for any advice.
John V. Kjellman
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| Lenard 2005-04-03, 7:45 am |
| John V. Kjellman wrote:
> Plextor offers no LINUX drivers for its DVD+R/RW Atapi drives, but I'm
> thinking generic ATAPI support in RedHat 9 might be all I need to use
> one of these drives. I'm using EdgeBACKUP 2.1.1 for backups. Am I in
> fantasy land regarding the possibility I might be able to use a
> Plextor
> drive? Anybody have any experience with these drives on a RH 9
> system?
>
Yes, reading and writing to DVD media is fairly easy. To get you
started;
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/...l/admin-primer/
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/...-started-guide/
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
http://www.k3b.org/
Don't know EdgeBACKUP, what is it some Windows Application????
I don't have a Plextor DVD+R/RW drive, but on my laptop I have;
$ cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-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
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
this version.
scsidev: 'ATA'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version
(schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c
1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-R6112' 'X231' Removable
CD-ROM
which works just fine.
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759
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| John V. Kjellman 2005-04-04, 8:45 pm |
| Lenard wrote:
> John V. Kjellman wrote:
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> Yes, reading and writing to DVD media is fairly easy. To get you
> started;
>
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/...l/admin-primer/
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/...-started-guide/
> http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
> http://www.k3b.org/
>
> Don't know EdgeBACKUP, what is it some Windows Application????
>
> I don't have a Plextor DVD+R/RW drive, but on my laptop I have;
>
> $ cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-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
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
> Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
> this version.
> scsidev: 'ATA'
> devname: 'ATA'
> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version
> (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c
> 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
> scsibus1:
> 1,0,0 100) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-R6112' 'X231' Removable
> CD-ROM
>
> which works just fine.
>
>
Dear Lenard,
Thanks for the feedback. EdgeBACKUP is a comprehensive backup
package that migrated to LINUX from the UNIX world (www.microlite.com).
Regards,
John K
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| Charles Sullivan 2005-04-11, 5:47 pm |
| On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 19:37:45 -0500, John V. Kjellman wrote:
> Plextor offers no LINUX drivers for its DVD+R/RW Atapi drives, but I'm
> thinking generic ATAPI support in RedHat 9 might be all I need to use
> one of these drives. I'm using EdgeBACKUP 2.1.1 for backups. Am I in
> fantasy land regarding the possibility I might be able to use a Plextor
> drive? Anybody have any experience with these drives on a RH 9 system?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> John V. Kjellman
I don't know what's available for RH 9, but I have a Plextor
PX-708 on a Fedora Core 2 system and it does NOT work with
DVD+R(W). (The K3b app uses the dvd+rw-tools drivers.)
It works fine for CD-R(W) and DVD-R(W).
(Kind of disappointing since Plextor ATAPI optical drives have in
the past usually been fully compatible.)
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| Frank Elsner 2005-04-12, 7:45 am |
| Charles Sullivan wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 19:37:45 -0500, John V. Kjellman wrote:
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> I don't know what's available for RH 9, but I have a Plextor
> PX-708 on a Fedora Core 2 system and it does NOT work with
> DVD+R(W). (The K3b app uses the dvd+rw-tools drivers.)
> It works fine for CD-R(W) and DVD-R(W).
I have a Plextor PX-716 on a Fedora Core 3 and
it does work with both DVD-R(W) ans DVD+R(W).
--Frank Elsner
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| Charles Sullivan 2005-04-12, 5:46 pm |
| On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:45:30 +0200, Frank Elsner wrote:
> Charles Sullivan wrote:
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> I have a Plextor PX-716 on a Fedora Core 3 and
> it does work with both DVD-R(W) ans DVD+R(W).
Frank, Thanks for the input.
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