DVD writing?

[Brian Densmore]

I would be very skeptical of being able to write a DVD disc in a CDRW
drive. I doubt the CDRW has the laser motion/tracking to write at that
density. Hence the reason DVD writeable drives cost $$$. If it sounds
too good to be true it usually is. Try reading a DVD in your CDRW. If
you can read it you can possible write it. If you can't read it how can
you read it back to verify you wrote it?

JMHO,
Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: John O'Brien [mailto:obrien.john60 at itazuke.org]
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 3:00 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: DVD writing?

First, I finally got my SuSE 8.1 up and running.  (Sort of)  It will
only run so far in text mode.
"They say" I have to get rid of my serial mouse to get the graphics part
working.

Anyhow, I keep getting these wonderfully informative ads telling me I
can write DVD disks
on my CD-RW drive.  Can I?  If so, is there a linux version available
that works?

John