Re: mounting external cd-recorder in rw mode

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 03/06/04 

Date: 6 Mar 2004 15:36:58 GMT

On 6 Mar 2004 07:08:09 -0800, Marek staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>> What you need is packet writing.
> Yes exactly. I wanna write to udfs (packets)

UDF packet writing is less useful than you might think because A)
there's a lot of overhead, much more than multisession B) you can't
delete things you've already written. UDF does *not* make your CD-RW
into a big floppy disk.

>> That is barely supported. AFAIK there was a project to support RW
>> 'a'la'windows' but never delivered anything.

http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet never delivered
anything? I don't think so.

> Do this means than Linux user has no ways to use rewritable media?
> As for me it's sounds strange. Is nowbody more use cd-rw? Only me :-)

Lots of people use CD-RWs, they just don't use UDF. You can easily use
a CD-RW as an ISO9660 multisession medium; that's what I do. I use k3b
to make burning multisession discs slightly easier. HTH, 

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