[PLUG] packet writing backus anyone?
Aaron Burt
aaron at speakeasy.org
Sat Nov 15 23:03:02 UTC 2003
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 08:26:56PM -0800, Mike De La Mater wrote:
> I want to burn lots of 30 to 100 Meg uniquely named files to a CD on
> different dates, filling the CD in a week. I believe that it's called
> packet writing, like DirectCD does form Adaptec for that "other" OS.
Packet-writing is indeed nifty, if you want to treat a CD-RW as an
ordinary writable disc. For your application, I think multisession is
more appropriate, and perhaps a bit simpler. You're basically gonna be
using the -C and -M options with mkisofs. The manpages should be a nice
starting point.
> It's for a backup routine that I'm using for a customer. I'm mounting a
> Win PC's CD-R right now and just copying them over, but the intrinsic
> Win instabilities are frustrating me. (I just drove for an hour one way
> to un-jam the thing)
Urgh. Ya know, cdrtools (mkisofs/cdrecord) is available in Win32, in
Cygwin and maybe native as well. There are tools out there that make
supporting a Windows box merely twice as painful as a *nix box.
Good luck,
Aaron
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