Hi All ,
I have a triple boot system (Win98, Debian 4.0, Ubuntu7.10) with 80GB HDD,
256 MB RAM.
I purchased a Sony DVD Writer today (technical name recognised in windows
given above). I did not have any hope of this DVD RW being recognised in
Win98. But when I booted into Debian, through the messages scrolling I could
see the DVD RW message scrolling (/dev/hdc).
When I put a Dual layer DVD into this drive , the DVD was not reading. (
mount /media/cdrom1 ---- no medium found ) Since it was not reading, I did
not venture into burning a DVD with this. I googled for Drivers for this DVD
Writer. All I got was the shopping details of this DVD Writer without any
driver details.
Same case in Ubuntu 7.10 also. I thought the linux distros being very
recent, the DVD writer should work out of the box, but it did not. What is
wrong ?
Is there any hope of reading dual layer dvd's in linux with this drive ? Or
should I consider Rs 1400 as gone down the drain?
Any help is welcome.
NS Srikanth