Ben Fennema wrote:

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 08:28:29AM -0700, guStaVo ZaeRa wrote:

 I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 5636
 I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 5636

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Now, I'm back to where i was last week; for each time I re-mount the 
drive, I am able to write some more to it (~30-100MB).

what i did observe, is that with your patch the write speed improved 
dramaticaly, which is great! :D

is there anything i can do to make this work? any suggestions?  if you 
give me an introduction or some hints, i could look at the source and 
see if I can help in some way.


You could try ext2 and see if you have any better luck.. My guess is
it will behave the same way.

I'm having problems with 'mke2fs /dev/cdrom' should i specify the block size and block count?

Also, make sure you have the latest firmware for your drive.

Ben

fair enough... i've found a firmware update for the HP DVD100i drive (update to 1.42 at http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/firmware/dvd/dvdrf.htm). What i don't really get, is why is the drive information in Linux says that the drive is a DVD100j instead of 'i'... is that a firmware issue? also, how do i actually update the firmare in linux. the only files that follow the zip files are .exe and .bin files. can i do it in linux at all?

another question: has anyone gotten the UDF work on a DVD+RW drive in Linux at all? what kind of a drive are you out there using? any suggestions?

cheers,
gustavo