Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:20:49 -0700 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i) |
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On Mon, Oct 16 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > I if cdrecord bypassed the sg driver and spoke to the > > cdrom driver directly. I know the CDROM_SEND_PACKET > > ioctl() is in place for lk 2.4 but from which version > > has it been functional in the lk 2.2 series? > > But the write command is not included in any source tree yet, and it works.
No but you could do WRITE_XX through the CDROM_SEND_PACKET stuff, and I have done just that before.
> This will be fun when it is released. > Imagine direct read/write access to DVD regardless of filesystems. > It should also do CD-RW's, but not tested.
Beware, cd-rw is quite different and not remotely as simple to support as DVD-RAM.
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