Re: pktcdvd and DVDRAM defect management

Malte Gell wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> 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?


Yes, and no.  For dvdram, the use of pktcdvd only helps to improve 
performance on some brands with little internal cache or poor write 
coalescing algorithms.