filosophizer - I do appreciate your help, yet from my comment yesterday:
So far I have tested using DVD -R, DVD +R and DVD -RAM with the same results.
The command I'm using is a simple backupios and would rather stay out of smitty for the time being (since testing that did not resolve my issue). My thinking at this time is this issue is basically how the vios see's the DVD as a USB device.
Think for the time being I will table this issue with trying to burn the DVD as my deadline approaches and I will stick with making an iso and ftp to another work station to burn. Thanks for the help - I will continue to monitor this thread and will post the resolve when I get back to it.
filosophizer - you called this one in an earlier reply
The solution was to use DVD-RAM and udf format.
backupios -cd /dev/cd0 -accept -udf -nosvg
Make note that if your vio server needs a second disk - someone will need to be present to change the disk when needed (we did not need multiple disks, our image fit on one disk).
Interesting side notes on this, the above command did not work a couple of days prior to the resolve. The DVD that was produced on the first attempt was not boot-able and had an incorrect file size. Since this is a project with a few people working on different things it is hard to duplicate.
At one point a reload from scratch was performed - could have contributed to our final success. The man file for this command has -cdformat listed yet that does not seem to work (with actually writing to disk). The command will complete with no errors just that nothing will be written to the DVD media.
Hope this note can help someone else.
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