Re: CD-RW for random access ?

[Jon Pennington <jpennington atipa com>]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:38:12AM -0400, S. Newhouse wrote:

> Adaptec ships a program which allows one to use a CD-RW as a big
> floppy disk. It can be read and written to by explorer, e.g.  Is there
> a way to use these CD-RW's created by the adaptec program in linux?
> Basically I want to be able to easily move files back and forth
> between the CD-RW and the hard disk. It is not sufficient to keep
> created massive iso files.

The tool you want requires a packet-writing interface to the device.  A
developer at SuSE Labs is working on such a thing for the 2.4 kernel,
but it is currently in 0.2, and as such is unusable.  If you want to
find out more about this project, check http://freshmeat.net/ and search
for packet-cd.

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