Burning DVDs without cdrecord
I learned today that the DVD burner on my IBM T60p is not recognized by cdrecord, which makes it difficult to burn DVD ISOs to DVD. Or so I thought...
I was able to grab the /dev designator for my DVD drive by doing:
This told me that my DVD drive was /dev/hda. Then I was able to use growisofs to write the ISO to DVD:
It was just that simple.
I was able to grab the /dev designator for my DVD drive by doing:
dmesg | grep DVD
This told me that my DVD drive was /dev/hda. Then I was able to use growisofs to write the ISO to DVD:
growisofs -Z /dev/hda=/path/to/dvd.iso
It was just that simple.
