Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Dec 1999 23:22:46 +0000 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: READ/WRITE CDROM |
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On Sun, Dec 12 1999, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Has anybody written a driver and made a tool to format it? The > Adaptec BIOS won't let me format it because "Not a DISK". So I > need to send a "format-unit" command, plus make a driver that > makes it it look like a disk block-device. No problem, but I don't
I have written a small tool that does just that (formatting, blanking, etc). It's a bit unfinished still, I'll send it to you in private.
> want to do what somebody has already done.
I'm writing a packet writing layer that sits between the CD-ROM driver and the block layer. And it's not as easy as you might think, you need to write fixed sized packets for CD-RW, you can't just write out whatever the requests feed you.
-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer * http://www.kernel.dk
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