DVD Packet Writing Slowness

Norman Silverstone norman at littletank.org
Sun Nov 6 13:26:38 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 11:18 +0000, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Well. Yes and no. With K3b you are probably writing Disk-At-Once or
> Track-At-Once. So you construct a ISO filesystem to put on the CD.
> What I am tinkering with is Packet Writing. At tho moment only CD-RW
> and DWD±RW (pos. DVD-RAM) is supported. It turns the CD or DVD into a
> "large floppy", you can mount it, copy things to and from it, delete
> things from it.

I was trying out the method of doing just what you describe, using the
CD-RW as a floppy which requires multisession mode. It works very well.
Unfortunately the multisession mode will not work with DVD because my
hardware does not support it.

Norman





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