udf cd rw

[Chris Hewitt]

Fritz Whittington wrote:

> On or about 2004-01-04 15:01, Maupertuis Jean whipped out a trusty #2 
> pencil and scribbled:
>
>> has somebody win to use cdrw with filesystem udf?
>> The cd is well formatted because i can use it under windows.
>> the unit under linux is scd0
>> first i try to mount it: mount -t udf /dev/scd0 /mnt
>> but it tell that /dev/scd0 is write protected
>> i chmod 0666 /dev/scd0 same result
>> i install (makedev) /dev/pktcdvd and try
>> pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0 /dev/scd0
>> result:open packet device: No such device or address
>> I don't know what to do now
>>
>>  
>>
> Are you mounting the CD-RW in a drive that's capable of burning CD's?  
> I don't have a burner on my Linux box, but certainly when I create a 
> udf CD on the Windows box I can mount it on the Linux box , and of 
> course it mounts as read only.
> I can't see anything in the docs I have that says writing to a udf fs 
> is not supported, even if you have a CD drive which is capable of 
> writing.  I do note that there is no mkfs.udf command in /sbin, which 
> provides a powerful clue that perhaps you can only write to such disks 
> using a burner program.
>
I've only found UDF to be read-only not writable. However, using CD 
burning software, what I do is to blank a CD-RW then write to it is 
ISO9660 as though it were a CD-R rather than CD-RW. As I use it for 
backups, writing a lot at once is what I want to do. There is not the 
convenience of adding a single file to it as with UDF, but this fits my 
needs.

I would like UDF write support, but have not found any.

Regards

Chris