HMMMMMM DVD-RAM? Is there a command that would show this? I will see what I can do with the UDF info. Thanks
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 11:18 PM Michael van Elst <[email protected]> wrote: > > [email protected] (Todd Gruhn) writes: > > >I have 2 different types of compact disks. One is a > >CD-RW, the other is DVD-RW. I was able to initialize > >the DVD-RW disks using 'cdrecord ... blank=fast' followed > >by 'newfs /dev/rcd0' > > Are you sure that it's CD-RW and DVD-RW ? These are rewritable > disks, but you can only write them sequentially, and not with a > random-access filesystem like FFS. > > A sequential filesystem like UDF on the other hand should work > with either DVD-RW or CD-RW. > > DVD-RAM is a rewritable DVD that allows random access, but there > is no CD-RAM. If your DVD-RW is actually a DVD-RAM, that would > explain why newfs works for it. > > -- > -- > Michael van Elst > Internet: [email protected] > "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
