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DVD+RW media on OpenVMS?

April 26, 2017DVD+RW media OpenVMS

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DVD+RW media on OpenVMS?

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Recording (writing) of CD and DVD optical media requires a recording or media mastering application or tool, and both commercial and non-commercial options are available. Please see CDRECORD (both non- DVD and DVD versions are available, and at least one commercial version is available), and also see DVDwrite (commercial) or DVDRECORD (open source). A port of CDRECORD is present in OpenVMS V7.3-1 and later; see Section 9.7. 9-7 Files o Acquire a comparatively recent SCSI-based or ATA (IDE) CD-R or DVD-R/RW or DVD+R/RW drive. Older drives can be very problematic, while newer drives are readily available, and are cheap and very fast. Related device requirements information is available in Section 14.28. o Get the most recent LDDRIVER available on the Freeware. Versions of LDDRIVER are latent in OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-1 and later. (Look within SYS$MANAGER:CDRECORD.COM for related details.) Use of the current ECO kit for LDDRIVER (as available), or of the version of LD distributed with V8.2 (k