[plug] DVD burners

[Craig Ringer]

  > 1) 'twas advertised by PLE as a 12x4x2 DVD burner.  Cdrecord recognises
> it as 4x read and 2x write for DVD and 32x read and 16x write for CD.
> Have I been ripped off or is cdrecord faulty?  Dmesg indicates that it's
> a TEAC DV-W50E v1.10; tomshardware.com has a review of the TEAC DV-W50E
> with firmware 1.10 - it is the fastest of the 4x DVD burners that they
> reviewed.

Weird indeed. CDRecord has been known to be mistaken.

> 3) Do data DVDs use the same (ISO9660) filesystem as CDs, or something else?
> i.e. is mkisofs still the Right Thing to use?

I think they can use ISO9660 or UDF, your choice. UDF write support is 
very very alpha in 2.4 but I gather will be in 2.6.