On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:-
>
>On Oct 17 2007 16:01, G T Smith wrote:
>>
>>You do not need dd (or mount), tar with with the DVD/CD device name as
>>target does it nicely for reading (and writing). I would expect
>>multi-volume tar to work in the same way as it would with a tape device
>>in this scenario...
>
>That only works with certain writers and discs. DVD+RW for sure,
>DVD-RAM. No idea about DVD+R.
Doesn't work with DVD+R, and I'd assume it would fail with a DVD-R as
well. Would probably work with DVD-RW, but don't have any to use as a
test.
>CD-RW in packet mode maybe.
Doesn't work directly with a CDRW.
>Use of
>pktcdvd is advised because its buffering is just advantageous (too
>lazy to search for details), and it may (or may not - who knows)
>solve the Read-Only problem.
<FX: goes off to do some reading>
>Stupid DVD drives die after exactly 2 years and 1 month, and I've
>hit that timespan again so can't check.
Not noticed that. I still have an old 4x DVD writer that still works.
Only replaced it to get a faster writer. The replacement, OTOH, did die
and was replaced by another DVD writer that handles DVD-RAM. That's been
fine, so far, but it's still less than a couple of years old.
Regards,
David Bolt
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