Burn an ISO image to DVD+R on an ATAPI DVD under Debina

#
# -f follow symlinks
# -l allow 31 character filenames in iso9660 
# -joliet-long allow juliet filenames to be upto 103 unicode characters
# -R rockridge extensions
# -J generate Juilet directory records in addition to iso9660 filenames
#
mkisofs -joliet-long -f -R -J -o /tmp/image.iso $dir

growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/tmp/image.iso
# 
# this just does something like
#    dd if=/tmp/image.iso of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0
#
  

Burn an ISO image to CD on ATAPI DVD under Debian with a 2.6 kernel

cdrecord -dev=ATA --scanbus
# if that doesn't work try:
#    cdrecord -dev="ATA:0,0,0" -scanbus
#    cdrecord -dev="ATA:1,0,0" -scanbus
# for a list of device types
#    cdrecord -dev=help
#

cdrecod -dev=ATA:1,0,0 /tmp/image.iso
# this should also work (get correct device from /etc/fstab)
#  cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc /tmp/image.iso