Plextor CD writers

From: John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com>
Date: Thu May 4 18:35:33 2000

On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 04:55:29PM -0400, Bill Pechter wrote:
> I believe the newest Adaptec EZ-CD can't do non-ISO or Audio stuff...
>
> I think that the Linux and Unix stuff can...

cdrecord on Linux does exactly what you tell it, whether you mean it or not.
So you can write any CD format you want, although most of the time you pipe
in output from "mkisofs" to get ISO-9660 disks.

The one problem I've had has been trying to duplicate existing CDs in a
direct disk-to-disk copy, it seems to get caught off guard by the EOF, but
it does fine with regular files. This may be something to do with Linux's
sometimes vague notion of the size of raw devices (using llseek() to seek
to EOF doesn't always return a meaningful offset). The mkfs type programs
get around this by doing a binary search to read one byte at 64 different
spots, maybe more recent cdrecords have been updated to do this (I'm a
bit behind).

John Wilson
D Bit
Received on Thu May 04 2000 - 18:35:33 BST