Re: CD-RW as a writeable drive


Subject: Re: CD-RW as a writeable drive
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 13:49:12 AKST


On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 11:26, Mike Baker wrote:
>
> Can I use my CD-RW drive as a writable drive just like a zip disk? I
> haven't found how to do this yet. I have see the cdrecord program but I
> was hoping to be able to put a file system on a rewritable disk and
> mount it and then issue commands like cp or mv to files on the disk. Is
> this possible? If so could you point me to some info on how to do this,
> what file system to use or any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Mike Baker
>
>
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One aspect of the technology to do this is 'Packet Writing'
http://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/

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Greg Madden
Precision Air Balance, Inc.
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