> On May 31, 2003 12:54 pm, Andrew Smith shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Last month I re-installed it to RedHat9 >> Then about a week later - for no apparent reason - I thought I >> might put a UDF formatted DVD-RAM disk in it and see if it worked. >> Wow - it behaves like a slow 2.6G HDD (about 1G per hour) >> So UDF is now there and I assume you could use it on any >> appropriate rewitable medium. > > Ok. ....let me see if I get this right: If I install a pre-formatted (UDF) > blank DVD disk in my DVD reader or CDRW drive, I can use it like > a (slow) HD writingnd erasing stuff from it, without having to erase > write the laser disk itself, each time? N.B. I *don't* have a DVD > writer, just a plain CDRW drive (/dev/hdd) and a DVD reader (/dev/hdc). > > Could I then, just buy a UDF pre-formatted DVD and use it as a > backup? ... since DVD's hold more, it would be IMVHO an economically > viable option to using 5 or more CDRW disks each time I want to back > up my data, and (if I follow you correctly), I could simply erase a > single file, instead of having to do an entire cd-record / erase session. > > ... am I understanding this correctly? > > as for my mention of "patching", while installing stuff, I seem to recall > that cdrecord needed to be appropiately "patched" to support UDF, > hence my query as to if I needed to patch that, and / or the kernel... > > (me: not very bright, but willing to learn more linux...) > > Elton ;-) Sorry for confusing you - I can see how you could read that in what I said - even though I didn't mean that. Each drive has specific media it can read, write and rewrite. A CDRW drive cannot write on DVD media. You would need a DVD writer - and then of course it would depend on the media that the writer says it can write on. But I'd guess that you can use a CDRW disk as a UDF partition and not have to worry about cdrecord or anything else - just mount it and use it as any other partition (but much slower - and dont do LOTS of update) The point I meant to make (but didn't do very well) was that RedHat9 - out of the box - will now use a DVD-RAM drive with a UDF formatted DVD-RAM disk just like a HDD. I follow this to also mean that you should be able to get any other rewitable drive to work with UDF as a mounted partiton as long as the media is correct for the drive. I'm using my DVD-RAM disks as rsync backups of important data. -- -Cheers -Andrew MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding!
