[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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