On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 23:45, Michael Jentges wrote: > >(except I still can't read the data I burned onto the CD-RW). > > I never did the CD-RW thing in Linux, just CD-R but I know in Windows, > using something like Roxio's "DirectCD" these disks can only be read by > this software. > They are used as 'swappable drives' in most cases. If this isn't what > you're after get some CD-R's and life might be just grand. If not, dunno > what to tell you. I was under the impression that DirectCD was just a marketing term for the UDF filesystem (something I think should be built into an operating system anyway). IIRC, UDF is technically the filesystem that is used on DVDs, though they also have an iso9660 compatability mode. UDF-only disks can be mounted in Linux with mount -t udf /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom Of course, there's also the Mt. Rainier low-level format, though I think that's designed to be readable by most CD and DVD drives... (just not necessarily writable by them) -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ 3 out of 4 Americans make / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ up 75% of the population. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030617/80210495/attachment.pgp