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CD and DVD Writing Drives publicly available in the ADPF

• TYCHO (Solaris) has a LG CD-RW CED 8120B Drive
  • Speeds
    • 12-speed: writes CD-R
    • 8-speed: writes CD-RW
    • 32-speed: reads CD
  • Temporary Disk Space in /home/tycho/cdr
    • 2GB total space
    • Visible on all ADPF computers
    • Files over 24 hours old will be purged on a daily basis
  
  
• KRONOS (Linux) has a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-104 drive
  • Speeds
    • 2-speed: writes DVD-R
    • 1-speed: writes DVD-RW
    • 8-speed: writes CD-R
    • 4-speed: writes CD-RW
    • 24-speed: reads CD
  • Temporary Disk Space in /home/pathos/cdr
    • 10GB total space
    • Visible on all ADPF computers
    • Files over 24 hours old will be purged on a daily basis
  
  
• DRACO (Linux) has a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-104 drive
  • Speeds
    • 2-speed: writes DVD-R
    • 1-speed: writes DVD-RW
    • 8-speed: writes CD-R
    • 4-speed: writes CD-RW
    • 24-speed: reads CD
  • Temporary Disk Space in /home/draco/cdr
    • 8GB total space
    • Visible on all ADPF computers
    • Files over 24 hours old will be purged on a daily basis
  
  

Writing CDs

• mkisofs and cdrecord - command line programs for writing CDs

Writing DVDs

• mkisofs and cdrecord-prodvd - command line programs for writing DVDs

For more information:

• An 'xfig' template for making CD-ROM labels is available at :
  /usr/local/admin/doc/forms/cdrom.fig
  This template can be printed on self-adhesive labels, available in Robinson Room 10.
• See the man pages for mkisofs and cdrecord.
• Look at the CDRECORD web page
• The CD-Recordable FAQ
• The DVD FAQ

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  Created by Cheryl Southard.