What about incremental writing to cdr under linux .. I have not worked out how to use a cdr as I can under windows .. to act as a large ..non erasable floppy. Stephen
Stephen Pearce wrote:
What about incremental writing to cdr under linux .. I have not worked out how to use a cdr as I can under windows .. to act as a large ..non erasable floppy. Stephen
I can't remember where, but I definitely have seen examples of this under linux. It was possibly with a packet-writing driver for a WORM drive back in the dark ages, but this was possible at some point. Keep looking.
What about incremental writing to cdr under linux .. I have not worked out how to use a cdr as I can under windows .. to act as a large ..non erasable floppy. Stephen
Just checked out the 2.6.10 kernel, and: If you have a CDROM drive that supports packet writing, say Y to include preliminary support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer CD writer. Currently only writing to CD-RW, DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs is possible. DVD-RW disks must be in restricted overwrite mode. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called pktcdvd. Packet writing on CD/DVD media (CDROM_PKTCDVD) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)
What about incremental writing to cdr under linux .. I have not worked out how to use a cdr as I can under windows .. to act as a large ..non erasable floppy. Stephen
http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/packet.html has some information on a patch you can use to allow packet writing to cd and dvd. Also, you can still do multi-session writes under linux, which is actually what windows does I think. Although it might not be as easy as WinXP makes it.
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:33:41AM +1300, Stephen Pearce wrote:
What about incremental writing to cdr under linux ..
cdrecord does handle multisession. with iso9660 the new sessions can include the dirlistings from the old session somehow. otherwise i believe it's just like multiple partitions. the important part is not to finalize the burning. and it might be notable that you may run into problems trying to read the nonfinalized cd from simple cd-readers. this is just my understanding about it, i have never actually tried this. (though i guess i'll try with dvds some day) greetings, martin. -- offering to do: pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration, anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
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