Hello, I have been having some problems with writing to cd-rw. I fear that it may be a hardware problem, so I would like to force writing on slower speeds (like 1x or 2x, my drive only does 4x). How can I accomplish it? Moreover, I read something about creating a ext2 filesystem in a cd-rw. Is there any reason for this being better than udf? What is the right way to format a cd as ext2? Finally, I am facing the file corruption problems that some people have already complained: cp -r /usr/src/linux /mnt/cdrw ends with a bounch of corrupted files. Is there any solution for this problem in progress? I am not a kernel developper, but if there is some way I can help (like testing), just let me know. Sorry for so many questions :-), Paulo -- Paulo José da Silva e Silva Professor Assistente do Dep. de Ciência da Computação (Assistant Professor of the Computer Science Dept.) Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil e-mail: rsilva@ime.usp.br Web: http://www.ime.usp.br/~rsilva Teoria é o que não entendemos o (Theory is something we don't) suficiente para chamar de prática. (understand well enough to call practice)
Paulo Jose da Silva e Silva wrote:
Hello,
heya :]
I have been having some problems with writing to cd-rw. I fear that it may be a hardware problem, so I would like to force writing on slower speeds (like 1x or 2x, my drive only does 4x). How can I accomplish it?
you can use cdrtools (ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha).
Moreover, I read something about creating a ext2 filesystem in a cd-rw. Is there any reason for this being better than udf? What is the right way to format a cd as ext2?
mke2fs /dev/cdrom, or something in those lines. gustavo
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guStaVo ZaeRa
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Mario Medina Nussbaum
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Paulo Jose da Silva e Silva