Re: CD-RW blues help

["William Hooper" <whooper freeshell org>]

dsavage peaknet net said:
> On May 30, 2003 Elton Woo wrote:
>  On May 30, 2003 12:57 am, Robert G. (Doc) Savage shrike-list redhat com
>> wrote:
>>>  in your /etc/fstab:
>>>
>>>    /dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  udf,iso9660   noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>>>
>>> The 'udf' entry is new for RH9, and largely optional.
>> ... pardon my ignorance, but would you kindly enlighten me on the
>> advantages of the UDF protocol? My CDRW device is connected
>> as /dev/hdd , and mounts as /dev/cdrom1.
>
> Elton,
>
> I know that 'udf' stands for User Defined Format. I *think* udf is the
> non-ISO9660 format used to write/rewrite to CD-RW disks as though they
> were big floppies. I'll let someone else provide confirmation and/or
> further details.
>
> --Doc Savage
>   Fairview Heights, IL

In this case "Universal Disk Format":
http://www.osta.org/specs/index.htm

-- 
William Hooper