dvd-ram lf-d201u by Panasonic

[chance]

Does anyone know if I can dup a dvd onto this dvd-ram drive? It's made by Panasonic/Matsu****a and it seems I can only do data writes on the 4.7B/9.2GB disks that I can but for $30/3 disks from my local computer store. I was hoping to use it as a dvd archival drive but it seems all the dvd authoring tools only discus dvd-r/dvd-rw drives and not this nice lf-d201u scsi-4 drive. I have it hanging off of a 29160n card.

Any help would be appreciated...btw..the drive cost me $500 when I bought it 7 months ago.

Thanx!

[Blane]

I also have a panasonic dvd-ram drive and since it's one of the first models to come out it only supports dvd-ram and not any of the other dvd media. If you want to do dvd authoring and create some movies dvd-ram isn't the right media. Even if it could be done there aren't any dvd players that support dvd-ram, for now. So were stuck just using it for backup purposes. Also,Try pricewatch to see if you can get the media cheaper.

[chance]

thanks blane....I thought the price for the media was resonable...a 4 pack for 30 bux....hmmm..I'll poke around more. I think the box that te drive came with was purporting that it can do dvd backups..but it turns out it only backs up oter dvd-ram disks...oh well. Also..they mention that the udf 2.0 that is supports can be used for video....I wonder wat that translates to...

thanks much

[Blane]

It's probably for any video that you have on your computer that you want to back up, but can only be viewed through that drive.