Mailinglist Archive: packet-writing (39 mails)

[Mike Albon <mikea@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I use DVD-Ram every day (it's my main data storage format) and
formatting them is easy. You just use "mkudffs /dev/sr0" (or whatever
device your dvd-ram is).

Doing the same for CD-RW you need to use cdrwtool. "cdrwtool -d /dev/sr1
-q" works for me fine.

One thing you do need to note is that most Windows software uses UDF1.5
so you need to make sure you have a -v 0x0150 for cdrwtool or -r 0x0150
for mkudffs.

I cannot comment on Suse I am afraid, I don't use it. However you would
probably need the packet patches, you could try modprobe pktcdvd and if
it complains with something like FATAL: module pktcdvd not found then
you know you don't have it in the stock kernel.


Regards

Mike

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 04:17, John Sowden wrote:
> I found that the only way I could use my DVD-RAM under Linux and DOS (via 
> Win98 or dosemu) was to use Win98 to format it, because Panosonic was not up 
> to writing a Linux format program (yet!).  Now I can read/write under 
> linux/dos as if it were a hard drive.
> 
> Is the same thing possible for CD-RW?  How about if I use cd-record to write 
> to it, with the packet option.  Would I need to patch my suse (nervous)?
> 
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