Constance, 6-Apr-2009
Dear DVDwrite prospective customer!

Functionality:

The program reads a foreign mounted device (e.g. a harddisk or a virtual disk)
or a file and writes all data without modifications (1:1) onto a CD-R(W) / DVD-R(W) / 
DVD+R(W) / DVD-RAM / BD-R(E). The maximum capacity of a DVD is about 8 GB, 
a BD-R(E) has 23 GB and a BD-RE DL 46 GB capacity.  

The file system is been kept by this procedure.  Thus ODS2/ODS5 or also
different file systems can be stored on a Blu-Ray disc/DVD.  For the generation of
the file system other programs must be used (mkisofs, lddriver, vddriver
or other operating systems).

A primary goal is it here not to produce any DVD films under OpenVMS but the
lossless archiving of large data sets.

Conditions for hardware:

1.) An Alpha Workstation/Server or Integrity Server with an IDE or USB interface
2.) A IDE-DVD/Blu-Ray-burner or an external USB-DVD/Blu-Ray-Burner
3.) A local UW-SCSI harddisk with at least 24 (8,5) GB of free capacity

Alternatively in case of a pure SCSI-solution:



1.) An Alpha Workstation/Server with an SCSI-Interface (133 MHz or higher)
    or
    an Integrity server
    or
    a MicroVAX 3600 or faster.
    
2.) A IDE-DVD-burner
3.) A local UW/U-SCSI harddisk with at least 24 (8,5) GB of free capacity
4.) A SCSI-IDE-Bridge; ACARD AEC-7720U; FW 3.61

Conditions for software:

1.) OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-1 or higher (SCSI) / VAX/VMS 5.5-2 or higher (SCSI) /
    OpenVMS Alpha V7.3 or higher (IDE) / OpenVMS I64 V8.2 or higher /
    OpenVMS I64 V8.3 or higher (USB)
2.) All current patches, which concerns CRTL, USB, IDE and SCSI

Scope of supply:

1.) DVDWRITE binaries for VAX, Alpha and I64. VMS- and Un*x-style command-line interface.
2.) A Command procedure for the control of DVDWRITE.EXE.
3.) Short instructions and installation hints.

Additional distributed software not supported by the author:

1.) IDE-Driver in source and binary (Freeware CD V5.0).
2.) A virtual disk driver package   (Freeware CD V7.0).
3.) Diskreader for SCSI-DVD-drives that work with 2048 bytes per I/O.
    Since OpenVMS V8.3 this program is obsolete because OpenVMS does
    this mapping automatically.

Additional features:

The program can erase Rewritables (CD-RW/DVD-RW) and format DVD+RW,
DVD-RAM or BD-RE(DL) media.

DVD-Rewritables are written with single speed (corresponds to eightfold of
CD recording speed). The recording procedure of DVD-R'S is twice
as high (16 * CD recording speed). Newer drives support higher
recording speed. The DVDwrite program tries to set the speed as high as
possible. CD-R(W)s are written in "Disk at once" mode.

During the recording procedure a burnproof option is activated, so that a
safe production of CD/DVD/Blue-Rays is guaranteed.

The program uses standard mmc4/mmc6 commands that are used by all actual drives
available on the market.

The program decides automatically which command set can be used for the 
drive actually used. The selection depends on the media inserted and 
interface type.

Still further questions???

DVDwrite for OpenVMS with full functionality costs 400 Euro
inclusive.  VAT.  + forwarding expenses.

Eberhard Heuser
Strandweg 29
D-88662 Ueberlingen
+49 7551 948529


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