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SubjectRe: READ/WRITE CDROM
On Sun, Dec 12 1999, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > > I have been using a hacked sd.c to allow me to write to a floptical
> > > drive. Now I have a real SCSI READ/WRITE CDROM (Yamaha CRW6416SZ).
> >
> > Im suprised you need to hack it for flopticals.
>
> It thought it was a CDROM. Simple hack, call it a disk.

That won't work at all. Blocks must be written in fixed sizes,
set when formatting the media. This is usually 32 or 64KB,
depending on the media type.

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* Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
* Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
* http://www.kernel.dk

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