Mailinglist Archive: packet-writing (85 mails)

[Ben Fennema <bfennema@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 
> > > this program has stability and usability features (for example quick
> > > disk UDF formatting takes ~ 3 minutes).
> > 
> > Does anyone know how the quick formatting in DirectCD works? Will a
> > quick-formatted disc work with the current linux packet writing module, or
> > is special support needed?

Well, some drives support background formating. (Which is required for CD-MRW)

> I'd guess they'll format only part of the track and format the rest on demand.
> I think I've spotted something like this in the UDF specs saying it is possible.
> 
> Moreover, I've creaded a 160MB fs, put it on the RW, played with it a bit
> (put some files on it) and linux was reporting 43MB free. When I took this disc
> to a windows friend, his DirectCD claimed there is ~390MB free on the disk,
> so it seems it is that way.

You can also extend the track (which would of course require futzing with the
UDF structures as well)

> BTW: I was also testing that 512sec/packet on his machine and he was reading
> it without problems, although windows refused to write on that disc.

Wonder if it correctly parses the sparing table *heh*
(Reading is (theoretically) transparent no matter what the packet size)

Ben