[ltp] another poll: how much data fits on your DVD-RAM? (capacity problems with Thinkpad Multiburner UJ-812 ?)

[Tino Keitel]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 15:27:34 +0200, Fionn Behrens wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> recently we have begun to use DVD-RAM at work so I was glad to have the
> multiburner at hand. Unfortunately it turned out that the DVD-RAMs were
> seemingly written different in the Desktop Drives (mostly LG) and in the
> Thinkpads UJ-812 drive.
> 
> Formatting a DVD-RAM in the desktop drive yields:
> 
> #> mke2fs -m0 -L test /dev/hdc
> #> mount /dev/dvd /dvd
> #> df /dvd
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdc               4403064        20   4403044   1% /dvd

My LG GSA-4040B shows exactly the same.

Btw., what write speeds do you get? When I write a big backup .tar.gz
to a disc formatted with ext2 and kernel 2.6.12, I get ~500 kbyte/s,
which is a bit slow IMHO. But since I have no comparison I'm interested
in experiences of other DVD-RAM users.

Regards,
Tino