Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Dec 1999 17:45:48 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: READ/WRITE CDROM |
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On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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.
Well it certainly has! The media (I'm talking about floptical, not my new CD-RW), comes "formatted" and I can build an ext2 file-system on it (slowly). I have been using it for several years. We also use the, on Suns -been there, done that, long time --.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
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