On Friday 19 July 2002 10:09 am, Sergiy Kudryk wrote:
--- Wayde Milas
wrote: On Thursday 18 July 2002 09:36 pm, Ben Fennema wrote:
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 08:59:47PM -0500, Wayde Milas wrote:
I know for me the background format is definately complete.... and the dd thingy doesnt help.
Out of curiosity, are you using a newer +R compatible drive, or the older +RW only drive? (As far as I know, their all rebranded Ricoh drives)
Latest firmware?
Ben
I'm using a Sony DRU-120A. As far as i know its a new device (Just bought it new off of googlegear.com last month) It reads and writes DVD +R.
As far as the firmware, how would i check it? hdparm or soemthing (Cant test it right now cause its sitting at home :)
Maybe it's bug in your drive firmware (microcode)..
Check for firmware updates for your model at next page :
http://sony.storagesupport.com/dvdrw/dru120a_dwn.htm
Also take attention that only CDRW drives (not all vendors) fully supported under Linux in packet writing mode.
Yes, Im aware that the packet interface is only aplicable to cd rw devices.. this whole thread started cause i was not aware that dvd rw are not packet devices. I realize this now :P However, I'm still a bit confused as to whether there is any way to write a udf or ext2 file system without first creating a loppback device, making the file system on it, then burning the whole big file in one shot with a dd on a dvd rw. Wayde