All your answers are here, my Friend: http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ I use the stuff on my Sony DRU500. It works great. There is a dvd-video switch on mkisofs for UDF compatibility but I don't think it enables packet writing. I researched this a while back for WORM archival of logs and stuff. On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 10:12, Elton Woo wrote: > 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 ;-) > -- > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_4504.html > "You only live once, so let's make life EASIER for each other." > LINUX Registered User #193975. AMD-K7 ATHLON CPU power on board. > > > > > -- Z <zleite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
