DVD-RAM works.

From: Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Date: Mon Jun 19 2000 - 05:43:51 EST

Hi,

DVD-RAM on 2.2.17pre4 seems to work. I promised I'd test it.

The loss of partitioning means that getting some of my media mounted
is a lot more hassle, than what it used to be, but I've found a
workaround. Hope it doesn't break....

Thanks to Jens for doing the cleanup..... :-)

                        Roger.

abraracourcix /var/log# mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/d1
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
abraracourcix /var/log# fdisk /dev/scd0
You must set heads sectors and cylinders.
You can do this from the extra functions menu.
Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/scd0: 0 heads, 0 sectors, 0 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1 * 512 bytes

     Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/scd0p1 33 4874240 2437104 83 Linux

Command (m for help): q

abraracourcix /var/log# losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/scd0 -o 65536
abraracourcix /var/log# mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/d1
abraracourcix /var/log# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 12173376 7530644 4265700 64% /
/dev/hda1 15338 4984 9524 34% /boot
/dev/hdc1 26532460 16842784 9157908 65% /recover
/dev/loop0 2360154 1796832 441468 80% /mnt/d1
abraracourcix /var/log# 

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