[rescue] Never Mind! (was DVD + Ultra 30 fun)

[Monty Walls]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:16:01 -0400
"Rodito M. Buan II" <rodito at acdlabs.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kurt Huhn [mailto:kurt at k-huhn.com]
> > Any idea what brand/manufacturer that DVD drive is?
> He said it was Toshiba StoreEdge DVD drive.
> 
> I been playing around with DVD too on my U30. I got this item from ebay
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2028347304
> A Hitachi DVD RAM GF-1050 SCSI Drive, Yes! I know, this is a DVD-RAM but
> hey, it's still good for good ol' backup. But be warned, you will need a
> scsi cable extender for the DVD drive since the drive have a little fan
> mounted at the back. I got it to boot from a Solaris 9 CD and DVD media
> with no problems, also got Xine compiled and playing DVD movies :) Does
> anyone know any DVD-RAM writer programs for Solaris?

Well you got 2 ways to go:

a) udf support (ie write-able), so check for udf write support.
b) just partition it like a hd and put a ufs partition on it.

Under linux, I've been using a Toshiba dvd-ram this way (like
a hd, with a large ext2 partition on it).  UDF write support
was kind of immature when I started, so....

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