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.
