Havin_it Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 (edited) 'ning, When I got my first CD burner it came with Nero (natch) and included with this was InCD, the UDF software. The idea of CD-as-floppy seemed ideal and I had a crack at formatting a disc. 3 hours and a nearly melted burner and disc later, I said 'never again'. But hostility dulls with time, and I thought I'd give it another look. I found one thread on the board (from 2003) in which UDF was all-but written off, though it was mentioned that it would have support in the 2.6 kernel. I guess they said that about many things though... So I'm just wondering whether this did happen, or whether it's been successfully implemented elsewhere in software. I did notice that mkisofs has a UDF switch, but does this mean it can add all the structure necessary for packet-writing when it creates an ISO? If true, this'd be incredible - bypassing that god-awful lengthy formatting process. Edited June 15, 2005 by Havin_it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 It's here. It's enabled in the default 2.6 kernel that ships with 10.1: CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD=y http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/...a/udftools.html I've done it as an experiment and it worked fine. Ignore the part about patching the kernel. Install udftools with urpmi if you have a contrib source set up and follow those instructions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted June 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Thanks, Steve. Installed udftools and I'm trying a quick format now (not very quick it must be said!) Would mkudffs or mkisofs be viable methods to shortcut this process (by making a preformatted ISO then burning it)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 I'd rather say drop it... packet writing is not safe by nature. Or at least do NOT backup critical data with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Very important: if you use packet-writing, mount the media with the noatime option, else you'll burn your media to death. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 Well, I mucked around with UDF for about 3 days solid, and had absolutely no joy from it. I think you guys are right, it's just not a viable way of using a CDRW at the moment, if ever. I might try it again if I ever have cause to buy Nero (and since I have K3B that's quite unlikely!) and try out InCD again. But the memories may keep me away... /shudder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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