> Are you sure the drive supports write access to DVD > RAM media? Yes, I can mount it read/write and write data to the DVD-RAM.
> Are you using vold? It seems vold doesn't know about > DVD RAM media and always mounts them read/only. That smells like a > vold bug. Ok; > Workaround: Stop vold (svcadm disable -t volfs), and > manually mount > the DVD RAM media. That should allow a read/write > mount. I already did that. The file was written to the DVD RAM but after that Solaris crashes. A post about this topic to this forum is still pending due to the big attachement. I wait for Casper's response if should file a bug for this crash. > OTOH, when you have an optical drive that supports > write access to > DVD RAM media, vold is running, and you insert a > blank CD-R or > DVD-R (!) (not DVD-RAM!) media, "Gnome Media Format" > pops up and > offers a "low level format" of the media. Apparently > some part of the > software stack is confused by the DVD-RAM support of > the drive (!) and assumes > that each and every media inserted into such a drive > must be formatable > with filesystems. I think this should be changed to > check the currently > inserted media (!), and only offer creating > filesystems if a DVD-RAM media > is currently inserted into the drive. Agreed, the current version of "Gome Media Format" is more or less useless. regards Bernd This message posted from opensolaris.org
