From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 13 17:23: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3EC37B400 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:22:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f0E1MiJ32229; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:22:44 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101140122.f0E1MiJ32229@ptavv.es.net> To: mtntrip@telusplanet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reading/Mounting a CD-RW In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 13 Jan 2001 06:42:43 GMT." <3a5ff8e3.677c.0@telusplanet.net> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:22:44 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "James Earl" > Sender: mtntrip@telusplanet.net > Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 06:42:43 GMT > > I had it so I could use it like a regular drive. > > So basically (correct me if I'm wrong)... I use my CD-RW disks the exact same > way I'd use a CD-R disk, but with my CD-RW disk I have the capability to erase > it and re-use it? At least until UDF support becomes available under FreeBSD? Yes. If you write ISO 9660 (including Joliet extensions), the disk will be readable under FreeBSD. It might be possible to read the disk without closing the session which would allow files to be added. I'm uncertain about this. I may try it shortly. And, in theory, you can re-open a session. But I have not had good luck with this. th added files could be read under Windows, but FreeBSD didn't see them. :-( In any case, you can erase and re-write the disk. With the Linux module available, I'm hoping that it is ported to FreeBSD, but porting kernel modules is NOT trivial. If it was, I'd do it myself. As it is, it will take someone with far more knowledge than I to do the job. I might also mention that even the Linux software will only read UDF. Writing is being worked on, but it's apparently fairly tricky. (Writing a format correctly is always harder than reading it.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message