Re: [SLE] dvd-ram drives

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 . I understand the case issue. It's always gotten to me, that it would cost less than a cent to add a scratchproof coating on CDs and DVDs, like they put on eyeglasses. But they never saw this as worthwhile... Hm. Anyway, DVD+RW's can write DVD-Rs now, so I guess I'll switch, especially since I've had trouble with the Linux UDF driver for 2 years. I recognise that there is little demand, so it will never get fixed. Just like my wonderful Alps MD5000 printer. Finest color printer made in its price range. (wax deposition method, rather than inkjet, so can do beautiful pictures on any paper. AND can do dye-sub on photo paper) Suse Cups drivers still do NOT work with it, after 2 years of my putting in bug reports. I have to keep a Win machine just for that, and can only print to it via Win2k in VMware over Suse, through the network to the print-PC. Suse has their own Cups system. Mandrake's Cups works with the Alps. I really regret that Suse's doesn't. On Thursday 02 May 2002 19:41, Rochester Payne wrote:

My lf-d210 is ide .. thanks for the insight into my problem .. its sad that the dvd+rw is taking off so fast .. I like the dvdram because of the protection it allows for my data .. without the case .. cd..dvd.. are so easy to damage or scratch .. at least with the dvdram I can remove it if I desire but for safe backups I prefer the case ..

roc ----- Original Message ----- From: "AnonymousCoward" To: Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 7:19 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] dvd-ram drives

. Mine is on the SCSI bus.

All DVDRAMS (and CDRW's) use the UDF filesystem. The UDF driver has NEVER worked reliably for my drive. I can format, read, and write, but delete a file, and the drive locks up. Other things cause this too. Can't unmount -force, as it's eternally 'busy'. Must then reboot. I found working a driver source 6 mo ago, but it no longer works with kernel 2.4.18 .

Might not matter so much, as DVDRAM is going away in favor of DVD+RW and I'll upgrade soon.

On my machine, the IDE CDRW is set to emu SCSI, so it shows first as sr0. And the DVDRAM shows as sr1. These are often aliased to /dev/cdrecorder, or /dev/dvd, but Suse changes these apparently at random, so I always refer to /dev/sr1.

So to format: mkudf --media-type=dvdram --partition-type=normal --blocksize=2048 /dev/sr1

Mount it. Then treat it like any other drive.

In fstab: /dev/sr1 /media/dvd auto rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0

On Thursday 02 May 2002 16:56, AnonymousCoward wrote:

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. Yes.

Pana LD101 (or something).

On Thursday 02 May 2002 12:39, Rochester Payne wrote:

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Does anyone out there have a dvd-ram drive working under suse ????????????? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

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