On Wednesday 29 October 2003 02:02 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:Tom, that was a very interesting article. I had always wondered why cdrecord and it's many gui front ends so seldom invited you to close partially written data discs, thereby leaving the rest of the unwritten disc free for more additions at a later time. If I understand this properly packet writing enables this process better.
The patch in question wasn't 'Bleeding edge' or experimental (alpha). It simply enabled packet writing to CD drives. A feature now disabled in the 'fix' (kernel 2.4.22-21mdk) already available, and various floppy images soon coming. A shame from my point of view. M$ has long encouraged and supported sloppy non compliant hardware (and irresponsible users).
Now it seems even Linux users have to, or are willing to
accept this, and demand that their favorite distro does the same.
People with junk fake-Cdroms are now safe, the rest of us have
to do without out of the box CD packet writing to accommodate the
ones who don't want to be bothered with knowing their hardware.
That think cheap junk non compliant hardware is just fine, an
should be protected by others. IOW's back-asswards
Please excuse my own followup, I forgot to provide a very pertinent link http://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/
John
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