Some bragging about DVD+RW

cdrskin/README

@@ -146,22 +146,17 @@ It is not checked for the necessary degree of hacker safety.
 Get an overview of cdrecord style addresses of available devices
     cdrskin -scanbus 
     cdrskin dev=ATA -scanbus 
+    cdrskin --devices
 
-Note: Adresses reported with dev=ATA are to be used with prefix "ATA:". You may
-      well use device file addresses as reported with --devices. Examples:
-        dev=0,1,0   dev=/dev/sg1  dev=ATA:1,0,0   dev=/dev/hdc
-      See also "Drive Addressing".
-Note: Address numbers have changed since cdrskin-0.2.2 in order to become
-      compatible with cdrecord numbers. To get the old number scheme, use
-      option  --old_pseudo_scsi_adr . See also "Pseudo-SCSI Adresses".
-      Sorry for any inconvenience.
-
+Adresses reported with dev=ATA need prefix "ATA:". Address examples:
+    dev=0,1,0  dev=ATA:1,0,0  dev=/dev/sg1  dev=/dev/hdc
+See also "Drive Addressing" below.
 
 Obtain some info about the drive
     cdrskin dev=0,1,0 -checkdrive 
 
 Obtain some info about the drive and the inserted media
-    cdrskin dev=0,1,0 -atip 
+    cdrskin dev=0,1,0 -atip -v
 
 Thoroughly blank a CD-RW
     cdrskin -v dev=0,1,0 blank=all -eject 
@@ -169,11 +164,11 @@ Thoroughly blank a CD-RW
 Blank CD-RW sufficiently for making it ready for overwrite
     cdrskin -v dev=0,1,0 blank=fast -eject 
 
-Burn image file  my_image.iso  to CD
-    cdrskin -v dev=0,1,0 speed=12 fs=8m -sao driveropts=burnfree padsize=300k \
+Burn image file  my_image.iso  to CD or DVD+RW
+    cdrskin -v dev=0,1,0 speed=12 fs=8m driveropts=burnfree padsize=300k \
             -eject  my_image.iso 
 
-Burn a compressed afio archive to CD on-the-fly
+Burn a compressed afio archive to CD or DVD+RW on-the-fly
     find . | afio -oZ - | cdrskin -v dev=0,1,0 fs=32m speed=8 -tao \
                                   driveropts=burnfree padsize=300k - 
 
@@ -217,6 +212,8 @@ Many cdrecord options are still unsupported, though.
 
 If you have use cases for them, please report your wishes and expectations.
 
+DVD support is still immature and restricted to DVD+RW for now. 
+
 
 
                            Inspiration and Standard
@@ -373,6 +370,16 @@ I myself am not into audio. So libburn-hackers@pykix.org might be the
 best address for suggestions, requests and bug reports.
 
 
+                                     DVD+RW
+
+DVD+RW media get treated as blank media regardless wether they hold data
+or not. Options -audio and -multi are not allowed. Only one track is allowed.
+-toc does not return information about the media content.
+Speed is counted in DVD units (i.e. 1x = 1,385,000 bytes/second). Currently
+there is no difference between -sao and -tao. If ever, then -tao will be the
+mode which preserves the current behavior.
+
+
                         Special compilation variations
 
 You may get a (super fat) statically linked binary by :