Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:37:22 +0100 | From | "lell02" <> | Subject | Re: Status of UDF CD packet writing? |
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>On Tue, Oct 08 2002, lell02 wrote: >> hi, >> >> >Will Jens Axboes patch for CD packet writing for CD-R/RW make it in >> >before the feature freeze? I know Jens Axboe is busy with more basic I/O >> >stuff, but i sincerely hope it can be squeezed in before 2.6/3.0 is >> >released. >> >> jens stated on this about 1-2 days ago. he said, it would be little >> modification on the ide-cdrom, to make it work with cd-mrw/ packet >> writing. so it could go in after the feature freeze. > >You might be talking about two different patches -- one for cd-rw >support (this is the pktcdvd (or -packet) patch that Peter Osterlund has >been maintaining) and the other for cd-mrw. The cd-mrw patch is very >small, not a lot is required to support that in the cd driver. >Supporting cd-rw is a lot harder, basically you have to do in software >what cd-mrw does in hardware (defect management, read-modify-write >packet gathering, etc). > >cd-mrw will definitely be in 2.6. cd-rw support maybe, I haven't even >looked at that lately. >
thanx for clearing out these differences.
but, isn't cd-mrw supposed to replace the old packet-writing technique? so, in the end, there wouldn't be any need for packet-writing, if every burner ships with cd-mrw-support... i read in the "specs", that the technology would be much better.
Marcus Lell
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