Re: DVD-RAM-Support in CD-ROM driver?

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 02:28:42 -0700 (PDT)

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On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Michael Mess wrote:
> DVD-RAM-Medium.
> In Linux 2.2.9 I can read this medium without problems by using the
> CDROM-driver (The drive identificates itself as CDROM-drive). When I try
> to write to the medium, I get "READ ONLY FILESYSTEM" as error message.
> I would like to modify the CDROM-driver to allow writing if a
> DVD-RAM-medium is present and not write protected. When a DVD or CDROM
> is in the drive the driver should behave like now.
> So I can use this drive like a CDROM drive but when a DVD-RAM is in it,
> I can write to that medium.

http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~sight95/linux/dvd-ram/dvd-ram.html
http://www.bitwizard.nl/dvd/

Hopefully one of these patches will make it into the 2.2.x kernel. Are
they even in 2.3.x yet? Would be a real embarassment to not have DVD-RAM
support in 2.4.x

-Dan

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