[newbie] dvd-ram disk
Hello! From what I've read, it is possible to write to dvd-ram disks, but unfortunately I'm not sure how I can do that. Any tips, please ? TIA -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net Fotolog http://fotolog.terra.com.br/imaginis usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 ** A arte de ser sábio é a arte de saber o que tolerar. William James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-RAM?
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: with a standard dvd my cd-r just spits them backout. Will it write to a standard cd-r? According to the manufacturer's web page, no. I haven't gotten the drive yet so I'm not sure from personal experience. I suspect I can trust them on this. I think it's safe to assume booting from a dvd isn't a major problem SuSE is doing it. Basicly what was done was just to allow for a 4gig iso9660 filesystem. Okay, I already have a normal DVD drive on this box and I have been booting CDs from it but never a DVD since software isn't usually distributed that way. It is good to hear that at least one of the distributions is doing it. cdrecord is your only option barring another OS. I remeber hearing about a packet driver maybe being started, but don't know what became of it. Standard usage of even cd-rw drives use cdrecord's -blank switch to re prep the disk for a re-write. I was afraid of that SIGH. Oh well, since you have heard that cdrecord works with DVD-Ram it isn't that big a deal. At least there is a solution that works GRIN. Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
[newbie] DVD-RAM?
There seems to be a lot of information out there about using the recordable CD formats but I was wondering, does anyone know what is involved in getting started with a scsi DVD-RAM drive? Is there an FAQ or project you can point me to? Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] DVD-RAM?
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Traci Collins wrote: There seems to be a lot of information out there about using the recordable CD formats but I was wondering, does anyone know what is involved in getting started with a scsi DVD-RAM drive? Is there an FAQ or project you can point me to? Thanks. _basicly_ it's no different than any other cdwriter. execute cdrecord -scanbus and it should pick it up no problem. You just need to make sure you don't go over the size when you do your mkisofs. Theres maybe a link on the cdrecord homepage to a gui util that won't whine about going over 650 megs. There was a link at one time to an observatory useing cdrecord to burn thier dvd's. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] DVD-RAM?
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: _basicly_ it's no different than any other cdwriter. execute cdrecord -scanbus and it should pick it up no problem. You just need to make sure you don't go over the size when you do your mkisofs. Theres maybe a link on the cdrecord homepage to a gui util that won't whine about going over 650 megs. There was a link at one time to an observatory useing cdrecord to burn thier dvd's. I found the second link but I wasn't sure it would directly apply to me since I didn't have daily data requirements of that size. I am still fuzzy about a couple of things, if you don't mind continuing to help I would like to ask a couple of followup questions. Once I have sent an ISO image to my DVD-Ram disk can the resultant disk be read by a standard CD-ROM drive as long as I keep the size under 650 megs? If not, can it at least be booted in a DVD-ROM drive to do things like operating system installs? When I am just using a DVD-Ram disk for backup or extra storage space do I even have to use something like cdrecord? Or since it is a scsi drive and I have a working scsi driver can I put an ext2 fs on it and just copy or move things to it via normal linux commands? I think I will understand the role of the cdwriter program a bit better if I have the answer to these three questions. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
