Re: PX-708A and DVD+RW patch

2003-10-17 Thread Andy Polyakov
> Has anyone had any luck with the Plextor PX-708a drive and the DVD+RW > kernel patch? Not to discourage you from trying, but there're certain things that you ought to keep in mind: 1. read "P.S. non-essentail "rant."" at http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ide-cd-2.5.69.+patch; 2. note

mkisofs questions

2003-10-17 Thread A.P.Munnikes
Hello, I have some questions about mkisofs (I'm using verion 4:2.0+a19-1, but it is more about mkisofs in gereral) 1. Is it, or is is not, possibele to make a good/working/official image that is > 4GB. (just with a lot of files with a size from 1 KB to a max. of 100MB, so not the problem about

Re: mkisofs questions

2003-10-17 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:44:58PM +0200, A.P.Munnikes wrote: > Hello, > > I have some questions about mkisofs (I'm using verion 4:2.0+a19-1, but > it is more about mkisofs in gereral) > > > 1. Is it, or is is not, possibele to make a good/working/official image > that is > 4GB. (just with a l

Re: PX-708A and DVD+RW patch

2003-10-17 Thread Dyson
00 24 4f d0 00 00 10 00 This is beyond the media edge. How come? I did growisofs -Z /dev/scd0=/dev/zero to erase the media and it went past the boundy to the very edge. This may have not have been on insertion but when that growisofs command finished. I will give John

Re: mkisofs questions

2003-10-17 Thread ljknews
At 10:44 PM +0200 10/17/03, A.P.Munnikes wrote: >1. Is it, or is is not, possibele to make a good/working/official image that is > >4GB. (just with a lot of files with a size from 1 KB to a max. of 100MB, so not the >problem about that the iso9660 can not contains a file > 2GB) ISO9660 certainl

Re: mkisofs questions

2003-10-17 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> 1. Is it, or is is not, possibele to make a good/working/official image > that is > 4GB. Dead simple, you need everything compiled with large file support. > 2. why are there in some images mkisofs information and others not ? > cat /cdrs/redhat90-1.iso |more > mkisofs 1.14 -A Red Hat Linux/i

Re: PX-708A and DVD+RW patch

2003-10-17 Thread Andy Polyakov
> Has anyone had any luck with the Plextor PX-708a drive and the DVD+RW > kernel patch? Not to discourage you from trying, but there're certain things that you ought to keep in mind: 1. read "P.S. non-essentail "rant."" at http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ide-cd-2.5.69.+patch; 2. note

mkisofs questions

2003-10-17 Thread A.P.Munnikes
Hello, I have some questions about mkisofs (I'm using verion 4:2.0+a19-1, but it is more about mkisofs in gereral) 1. Is it, or is is not, possibele to make a good/working/official image that is > 4GB. (just with a lot of files with a size from 1 KB to a max. of 100MB, so not the problem about

Re: mkisofs questions

2003-10-17 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:44:58PM +0200, A.P.Munnikes wrote: > Hello, > > I have some questions about mkisofs (I'm using verion 4:2.0+a19-1, but > it is more about mkisofs in gereral) > > > 1. Is it, or is is not, possibele to make a good/working/official image > that is > 4GB. (just with a l

Re: PX-708A and DVD+RW patch

2003-10-17 Thread Dyson
00 24 4f d0 00 00 10 00 This is beyond the media edge. How come? I did growisofs -Z /dev/scd0=/dev/zero to erase the media and it went past the boundy to the very edge. This may have not have been on insertion but when that growisofs command finished. I will give John

Re: mkisofs questions

2003-10-17 Thread ljknews
At 10:44 PM +0200 10/17/03, A.P.Munnikes wrote: >1. Is it, or is is not, possibele to make a good/working/official image that >is > 4GB. (just with a lot of files with a size from 1 KB to a max. of 100MB, >so not the problem about that the iso9660 can not contains a file > 2GB) ISO9660 certainl

Re: mkisofs questions

2003-10-17 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> 1. Is it, or is is not, possibele to make a good/working/official image > that is > 4GB. Dead simple, you need everything compiled with large file support. > 2. why are there in some images mkisofs information and others not ? > cat /cdrs/redhat90-1.iso |more > mkisofs 1.14 -A Red Hat Linux/i