[G4] Re: Copying DVD

[David Barber]

Hi,

As others have noted, without multiple drives you're not going to speed things up much.

You could write an image to your hard drive, and burn from that - I'm not clear from your message if that's what you're doing. That'll save re-inserting the original disk after each burn.

You could also script the whole thing in the shell, loop it checking the exit code after each write, and then you would swap disks and press enter (or whatever) to start the next burn. But that's not all that much easier than using disk utility (especially if you aren't good with shell scripts).

David

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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:47:19 -0700
From: Earle Jones <earle.jones at comcast.net>
Subject: [G4] Copying DVD
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I had a big DVD to copy (the running time was two hours plus -- about  
4 GB).

I have System X 10.4.10 -- Intel iMac 1.8 GHz -- 2GB RAM -- 1 TB HD.

I tried Carbon Copy Cloner with no success -- after spending 25  
minutes copying, I got a "failure to copy" error.  When I checked the  
disks they would not open with 'DVD Player'.

I talked to a recently retired Apple friend who told me to use the  
Mac 'Disk Utility'.

1.  Insert the DVD to be copied.
2.  Use 'Disk Utility' ('New Image') to create a disk image.
3.  The name of the new disk image will appear in the 'Disk Utility'  
list.
4.  Select it and click on 'Burn'.
5.  You will be prompted to insert a blank DVD disk.
6.  When it is ready, click on Burn.

For the 4GB DVD it took about 25 minutes to record the track and  
about 6 minutes to verify.

I used HP Double Layer DVD+R 2.4x disks (at about $2.50 each!)
The HP Single layer DVD-R 16x disks did not work as well (at $.36 each)

Since I needed ten copies, I spend just about all day doing all this.

Is there an easier (and cheaper) way?

Thanks,

earle
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