I apologize if I'm missing the bus here, but for some reason I recently came awake and noticed packet-writing for what it could be. In reading the history and archives I can find, it seems most people are concentrated on using RW media for temporary storage - "floppy replacement" kind of stuff. My interest is in using it with R media as a poor-man's WORM drive substitute for storing log files, but I'm not finding much reference to anyone doing so other than claims that it "can be done." I've tried a superset of all the instructions I can find, but thus far have succeeded in nothing more than making a couple of coasters - dvd+rw-format seems counter-intuitive on write-once media. This list seems to have really slowed down in the past couple of years, but I hope there are still enough knowledgeable people watching this list that can answer my [hopefully] elementary questions: - It has been stated that CD-R (and presumably CD+R) media is not supported for use; is that due to lack of software or that the physical medium itself cannot be abused in that manner? - Has anyone actually ever successfully used DVD-R (or DVD+R) media to store 'immutable' data? If so, can you list the precise steps, drive, and media (if relevant) you used to do so? The ability to actually [physically] delete things from RW media defeats my intended purpose. - Does pktcdvd gracefully handle concurrent, incremental file writes (read: log files), i.e., can blocks be interleaved or must an entire file's worth of blocks be allocated at once? Note - this question is due more to my lack of understanding of the UDF format than anything. Whatever the answers, I'm certainly willing to learn & get my hands dirty trying to get this working, I'd just like a few things cleared up so I know what I'm getting into. Thanks for your time! RB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: packet-writing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: packet-writing+help@opensuse.org