On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:12:28AM -0500, Wayde Milas wrote:
On Monday 15 July 2002 11:18 pm, you wrote:
Ok, quick question.. are you using a CDRW, or a DVD+RW in your DVD+RW drive?
If your using a DVD+RW, none of the packet stuff should be applicable. I think DVD+RW is closer to DVD-RAM and HD's in that you "format" the media. Once formated, you can freely write anywhere on the disc. (so all you'd have to do is run mkudffs on the disc - assuming the kernel thinks the device is R/W)
Ben
I think you are confusing DVD RAM nd DVD RW. From my understanding, and from what I've read at http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ , DVD RAM is like a slow hard disk, Random access, while DVD+RW is packeted just like CD RW. Considering that the software over there works in linux, im guessing he's right :P
Well, from http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ Q. Kernel patch? What's wrong with cdrecord/cdrtools? A. Nothing! Moreover, you actually need them (cdrtools). It's just that you can't use them to manage DVD+RW media itself. DVD+RW media has no notion of [multiple] sessions or packet writing, so cdrecord[-ProDVD] wouldn't really know what to do. But most important is that DVD+RW is a true random write access media and therefore is suitable for housing of arbitrary filesystem, e.g. ext2, vfat, ufs, etc. =]
From my understanding, its more like CD-MRW in that it does the write coalessing for you (which is why the packet driver wouldn't be needed), but it doesn't do bad block remapping so running arbitrary filesystems isn't the best way to go if you value your data.
Ben