[ale] Using IDE CDRW Drives / SOLVED

[jfondow]

thanx for all the help folks, here is the solution that worked for me:

/usr/X11R6/lib/xcdroast-0.96e/bin/cdrecord-1.6.1 dev=1,0 blank=fast



Chris Ricker wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, jfondow wrote:
> 
> > I have the an Acer CDR-W working great with xcdroast, but how do you get
> > the RW functionality?  I have CDR-W disks but haven't been able to use
> > them only the cdr's.  TIA
> 
> That depends.  You can use the cd-r/w as an erasable cd-r (meaning you burn
> an ISO to it just like you would to a cd-r, but can erase it and use
> it again later).  See
> 
> cdrecord blank=help
> 
> for all the options on how to erase the discs / tracks / etc.  You might
> have to do a blank on your CD-R/W disc before you use it the very first time
> as well, depending on what state they arrived in from the manufacturer....
> 
> You can't, however, use the CD-R/W like you can under Windows where you
> write to it file by file.  Linux doesn't support packet writing in the
> official kernels.
> 
> If you have packet-written CD-R/W discs kicking around that you need to
> read, they're in UDF format.  There are fairly stable patches floating
> around which allow you to read UDF (and it merged into 2.3 a while ago, so
> when 2.4 hits it'll be standard).
> 
> later,
> chris
> 
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> Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
>                                               chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu