>From: Andy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Does cdrecord-ProDVD support the now available DVD+RW drives
>> (HP dvd100i, Ricoh MP5120A, Philips DVDRW208; all ATAPI,
>> 600-700 EUR street price)?
>> According to http://www.dvdplusrw.org/pc/dvdrw208.html they're
>> all quite similar and use the MMC command set.
>>
>> Are they expected to work with cdrecord-ProDVD? Has anyone
>> actually tested it?
>Note that DVD+RW media is true random write access media meaning that it
>can house arbitrary file system (just like DVD-RAM). DVD+RW media has no
>notion of tracks, sessions, etc. so that cdrecord[-ProDVD] wouldn't know
>what's proper thing to do.
>What I've been working on for last few days is (linux) kernel support
>for DVD+RW media which makes it possible to use plain unix dd (or sdd if
>you prefer:-) to "burn" DVD+RW media (or mount it as read-write
>filesystem) as well as on utility to format DVD+RW media and a script to
>grow isofs (no sessions, remember).
If DVD+RW allows you to write to random loacations like DVD-RAM, then
readcd works to write to this type of media (you need a large file aware OS).
J�rg
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