Re: [expert] Going Crazy over IDE CD-writer

[John Aldrich]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > Simple: When you MOUNT the CDRW drive, you're treating it
> > as a standard CDROM. You don't mount a CDRW drive when
> > burning a CD. :-)
> >         John
> oh, ok...  Next question:  why *don't* you mount a CDRW when
> burning a disk?  Is it because it is not yet formatted?  Just
> like when u must mkext2 before you mount?
> 
Pretty much. Have you ever tried to mount a blank CD? :-)
Also, Linux won't LET you mount a CD before burning it, at
least xcdroast won't let you...
        John