Christof Damian wrote:
>
[...]
> Which stunt ist that ? How are DVD-RAMs supported by linux at the
> moment ?
>
I'm currently working with a Panasonic LF-D101 DVD-RAM device. It
works well, apart from the following two issues:
1.) You have to patch Linux to have it recognize the LF-D101 as
optical (writeable) device. In short, all you do is to add
another device to the SCSI device blacklist, and put some
magic around it.
2.) You need a kernel with 2048 Byte blocksize support. I'm using
Linux-2.2.9. I couldn't get partition-table support to work
yet, though (so I'm using the whole /dev/sda device). Anyone
with experience in 2k blocksize & partition tables out there?
I can send you my patch if you are interested (but it's floating
around in mailing-lists in one or another version anyway)
I'll try to fix it all up and to present a reasonable clean solution
to be integrated into the kernel in the near future. Stay tuned!
The LF-D101 seems to be a cool device. It works reasonable fast, and
the media are really _cheap_ (you get 1GB of direct accessible,
removable storage capacity for about EUR 7,- excluding taxes!)
- andreas
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