>> On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Andrew Smith wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> Now *I* am confused ;-) >> >> I am aware of the fact that RHL9 will *read* UDF disks, but how do I get >> it to *write* to them? >> >> My /etc/fstab has >> >> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 >> user,unhide,noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 >> >> and /dev/cdrom is actually /dev/scd0, which is my TEAC CDwriter (which >> works fine with cdrecord/cdrdao, etc). >> >> Changing the ro in fstab to rw doesnt seem to do the trick. >> >> Is there a HOWTO somewhere I can read that takes into account any >> changes >> made to RHL9? >> >> TIA! >> >> Atul > > No idea if there is a howto, but my SCSI 'Toshiba SD-W1101 DVD-RAM' > drive entry (I didn't add it - install or kudzu did) in fstab is: > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,rw 0 0 > /dev/cdrom is /dev/scd0 > > And my IDE 'Ricoh CD-R/RW MP7040A' is: > /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > /dev/cdrom1 is /dev/scd1 (and ide-scsi is on) > > OK - now I'm interested - lets see if I can format a CDRW disc > as UDF on my CDRW drive... > > 1) to get the scsi device number: 'cdrecord -scanbus' > gives: DVD-RAM = 0,2,0 and CDRW = 1,0,0 > > 2) I have a CDRW disc with audio on it ... can check with: > 'cdrecord -dev 1,0,0 -toc' > > 3) In /etc/fstab I guess the CDRW 'ro' should be 'rw' like for > the DVD-RAM drive (everything else is the same!) > > 4) Search the RH packages for anything with 'udf' in it - nope :-( > Only interesting thing I found was docs saying rw doesn't work? > Then how come it does for me? > I'm using 2.4.20-13.9 > > 5) Search the net ... > > I found udf-utils from sourceforge and it compiled fine and > installed, but I couldn't get it to work - the linux kernel > is 0.9.5 of UDF but I doubt that's a problem > > The command 'pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0 /dev/cdrom1' fails. > > Looks like I jumped the gun here - oh well. > > Anyone who actually knows what they are doing (unlike me) > - know how to get it to work? One more bit of info ... udf-utils: 'mkudffs /dev/cdrom' works on a DVD-RAM disc (I had a new unformatted one to try) -- -Cheers -Andrew MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding!
