From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 22:43:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from priv-edtnes03-hme0.telusplanet.net (fepout1.telus.net [199.185.220.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3468C37B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:42:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from telusplanet.net ([198.161.157.111]) by priv-edtnes03-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.10 201-229-121-110) with SMTP id <20010113064243.UUDS22021.priv-edtnes03-hme0.telusplanet.net@telusplanet.net>; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:42:43 -0700 From: "James Earl" Reply-To: mtntrip@telusplanet.net To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 06:42:43 GMT Subject: Re: Reading/Mounting a CD-RW Message-id: <3a5ff8e3.677c.0@telusplanet.net> X-User-Info: 161.184.27.237 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? Thanks for your help. >Did you write the disk as an ISO disk or by using the option that >makes the CD-RW look like a normal disk? If the latter, it is written >is UDF format, a new format for writable optical media. It's used for >CD-RW and DVD-RAM. There is a Linux kernel module to allow reading UDF >format disks, but I don't think that it is available for and BSD. > >UDF is not a proprietary format. I hope it makes it to FreeBSD some day. > >R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer >Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) >Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) >E-mail: oberman@es.net=09=09=09Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message