Mailinglist Archive: packet-writing (39 mails)

[Dyson <Dyson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This patch won't work for DVD-RW but it should for DVD+RW drives.


I found this patch to work by John Williams.

I tested it with a Philips DVDRW228, HP 300e and a Plextor PX-708a.

www.pond-weed.com/dvd.html <http://www.pond-weed.com/dvd.html>


I formulated a single patch file from John William's, Jens Axboe's, Andy 
Polyakov's and Peter Osterlund's work verbose copy with the 
packet-2.4.22 version instead of 2.4.21 patch here for convenience

http://dyson.kristenscatbeds.com/pktcdvdrw_plusdvdrw_2.4.22.patch.bz2


This is not LG safe however. For this you would have to follow John's 
instructions but install the new packet 2.4.23-pre8 patch instead of the 
packet 2.4.21 patch. I don't know if this would work though.

This patch only writes 32k to the drive at a time so there may be some 
performance issues with writing hundreds of small files (<32k) in 
succesion. At least that is what I found.


The instuctions for how to use this with DVD+RW is on John's site:

www.pond-weed.com/dvd.html <http://www.pond-weed.com/dvd.html>


Don't forget the devices if you don't have them already.
mknod /dev/pktcdvd0 b 97 0
mknod /dev/pktcdvd1 b 97 1
mknod /dev/pktcdvd2 b 97 2
mknod /dev/pktcdvd3 b 97 3

And this line in /etc/modules.conf

alias block-major-97 pktcdvd

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pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0 /dev/scdX (X=drive)

mkudffs --spartable=2 --media-type=cdrw /dev/pktcdvd0

mount /dev/pktcdvd0 -t udf -o rw,noatime /cdrom


-Dyson

i.linty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> What about DVD-RW and packet writting ?
> There is a patch for the linux kernel that works ?
> Can You help me ???
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> Thank's
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