Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry,

For the hell of it, I did this:

% cd /media/cdrom
% time tar cf - * |dd of=/dev/null
15722260+0 records in
15722260+0 records out
Elapsed: 21m20s (1280); User: 0m21.1s (21.1); System: 2m0.8s (120.8)

% du -s
7858392 .

% find * -type d |wc -l
61

% find * -type f |wc -l
7983

(Pay no attention to the mount point name--for some reason, that's what 
my SuSE 9.1 system wants to call my DVD recorder.)

Dd, by default, transfers 512-byte records, so that represents just 
under 7.5 gigabytes of file contents. No errors were reported by tar or 
in /var/log/messages or ../warn, so presumably the the entire disc's 
contents were read successfully.

It appears my Sony DVD +/- RW drive (Model DRU 510A) is able to read 
these dual-layer DVDs.

Randall Schulz


On Thursday 18 November 2004 11:43, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I received my personal copy of the DVD on Monday, but have not had
> time to try it out until last night. The DVD would neither read nor
> mount on my laptop. To rule out bad hardware, I was able to
> successfully mount and read the source DVD. I have since contacted
> Amazon for a replacement.
>
> However, I was able to use another DVD reader here at work, and copy
> all 8GB to my laptop. One possibility is simply that my laptop DVD
> reader is a bit off register and the DVD is good, or the DVD is
> marginal. In any case the replacement will tell the story.
> --
> Jerry Feldman