Greetings all;

I'm back from a week out in Nebraska, getting a son married off.  I 
hope that you didn't get too many bounces as my mailbox was full when 
I got X running again, which had died due to my changing the default 
prompt in bash, which in turn screwed up the X startup, it would get 
to the mouse intialization, report success in the log, but hang at 
that point with no further disk activity.

Anyway, on arrival here, it appears my 2nd tape drive in as many 
months is in the process of dying.

I recently bought a DVD+-RW, drive and a 25 pack of +- media.

While its burnt several cdr's just fine, the media I have appear to 
not be compatible with cdrecord unless I buy the cdrecord-DVDPro 
version from Jeorg.  I probably can, the $ is not a huge problem.

What I'd like from this group is some pointers on setting up the use 
of this dvd drive as a 4.7GB tape equivalent.  I'd be glad to be 
somebodies "guinea pig" :-)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty.  Soap, ballot, 
jury, and ammo.
 Please use in that order, starting now.  -Ed Howdershelt, Author
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