Re: pktcdvd and DVDRAM defect management

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 06:47:30 +0100
Malte Gell <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> afaik the defect managament of DVDRAM is built into the drive's 
> firmware, right? So, when one uses the pktcdvd driver to access DVDRAM, 
> does this disable the drive's built in defect management or is it still 
> active?
> 

I can't comment specifically about the defect management, but the
pktcdvd driver is not necessary to access DVD-RAM.

DVD-RAM disks, most being preformatted as UDF, can be mounted
and accessed just like an ordinary disk drive.  Only the UDF
file system needs to be included in the kernel.

FP