cdrw and dvd rw used as a floppy

[Jason Clinton]

Chris Bier wrote:

> UDF is what you want.  afaik the only cd/cdrw/dvd supported formats
> are UDF and iso9660.  Most DVDs use UDF.


Yes, UDF is probably what you want to use for any RW disc based media. 
Though, that's not exclusive. I have and use a DVD-RAM drive for 
long-term archiving and I use ext3 on it. As for other RW media, AFAIK, 
you can use other file systems on them. However, other file systems are 
not optimized for use with discs like UDF is. On the other hand, the 
DVD-RAM standard mandates that the drives manage bad sectors in the same 
way that a hard drive does -- automatically marking them bad and 
allocating the data to a new location.

Whatever you decide on, the entry in your /etc/fstab should be 'auto'. 
Use mkudffs to format the RW media. The kernel must also be aware that 
your drive can RW/RAM (most are compatible). You MUST not have ide-scsi 
enabled and you must be using the 2.6 kernel series. Do not install 
Kernel 2.6.8 or 2.6.8.1 as cd writing has been borked. 2.6.8.2 will 
correct this.

Also, it's worth mention that your "slow floppy" reference is rather 
humorous: at 1x DVD write speed, 1.39 MB of data are written to the disk 
every /second/ -- that's the entire size of a floppy. Maybe you were 
thinking of another media called floppy?


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 252 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://kclug.org/pipermail/kclug/attachments/20040829/806015d9/signature-0002.pgp