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Re: This RULES, if you have any cash, I highly recommend this
Cool! Congrats! Sounds great ... thanks a LOT for probably costing me
some more money on this hobby :-)
How much did you pay for your writer, and how much for media?
dave w
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 00:44:23 -0500
[email protected] wrote:
> Ok, I have just gotten a DVD-RAM to work under linux!! How do you do
> this? simple emulate scsi, enable UDF write support, and you are in
> business.
>
> DVD-RAM is similar to CD-RW, except it its for dvds. The drive I have
> (panasonic lf-d311), supports 4.7 and 9.4 GB disks (yes GB). It also
> does dvd-r for non-rewriteable stuff. It also doesn't need dvd-ram media
> in a cartrige (though it can use that media too), it just looks like a
> regular dvd (but the back of the disk looks different).
>
> I now have a high density removable media that couldn't be easier to use
> (its actually easier to use than in windows...though windows isn't bad).
> I can't beleive how well this works in linux, and all I had to do was
> enable it in the kernel. I was able to transfer a 1GB directory to the
> disk in about 15 minutes (does this compare well to cd-rw?), and then
> deleted it, which happened instantaneously.
>
> long story short, DVD-RAMs work great under linux, and if you have the
> money, its worth picking up.
>
> peace
>
> jason
>
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