Re: CD-RW & DVD-RAM

Cameron Simpson (cs@zip.com.au)
Tue, 25 May 1999 06:02:31 +0000

On 24 May 1999, in message <374939B2.D284993F@guideguide.com>
Christof Damian <cdamian@guideguide.com> wrote:
| Ben Fennema wrote:
| > But the fs is just one part of writing the a CD-RW.
| > Support for packet writing has to be added to the cdrom driver (or
| > something).
| >
| > Otherwise pulling the same stunt as people have been doing for
| > DVD-RAM is possible, but you only get 83 meg on a disc.
| > (Formating a disc with 1 block/packet).
|
| Which stunt ist that ? How are DVD-RAMs supported by linux at the
| moment ?

A few. They're not in the mainstream kernel. Well, specificly:

- the UDF fs is still sort of alpha - Ben's the dude here

- most DVD-RAMs, instead of appearing as two SCSI LUNs, one
a CD-ROM and one a rewritable removable drive, appear
as one device; there're a few patchs floating about to make
the kernel recognise the vendor strings and make two entries.
I am using this approach happily with a Creative DVD-RAM.

Cheers,

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Cameron Simpson, DoD#743        cs@zip.com.au    http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/


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