Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 May 1999 19:27:53 +0200 | From | Andreas Haumer <> | Subject | Re: CD-RW & DVD-RAM |
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Hi!
Christof Damian wrote: > [...] > Which stunt ist that ? How are DVD-RAMs supported by linux at the > moment ? > I'm currently working with a Panasonic LF-D101 DVD-RAM device. It works well, apart from the following two issues:
1.) You have to patch Linux to have it recognize the LF-D101 as optical (writeable) device. In short, all you do is to add another device to the SCSI device blacklist, and put some magic around it.
2.) You need a kernel with 2048 Byte blocksize support. I'm using Linux-2.2.9. I couldn't get partition-table support to work yet, though (so I'm using the whole /dev/sda device). Anyone with experience in 2k blocksize & partition tables out there?
I can send you my patch if you are interested (but it's floating around in mailing-lists in one or another version anyway) I'll try to fix it all up and to present a reasonable clean solution to be integrated into the kernel in the near future. Stay tuned!
The LF-D101 seems to be a cool device. It works reasonable fast, and the media are really _cheap_ (you get 1GB of direct accessible, removable storage capacity for about EUR 7,- excluding taxes!)
- andreas
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