Re: [9fans] scuzz doesn't like CD-RW?

["Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

the tar is not keeping up with your drive. slow it down or tar to
a raw partition, which is as fast a feed as you'll get.

brucee

On 10/10/06, cej@gli.cas.cz <cej@gli.cas.cz> wrote:
> I can also burn ISO CD-RW on plan9 with that drive, I forgot to mention it.
> The problem is that I can§t burn a tar file directly, i.e., without cdfs,
> so I could read it thus:
> tar tvf /dev/sdD0/data
>
> aftr blanking the cd, I got rid of that 'bus timeout' message,
> probe
> ready
> inquiry
> rewind
>
> all work, but I still can't write
>
> My problem is that I don't trust ISO-9660 and companion very much.
> writing .tar instead of .iso using cdfs would probably work, but would force me to use the cdfs overhead.
>
> Reasoning is that if something goes wrong, I can get most of the data back from tar, not so from iso.
>
> Thanks for the response,
> best regards,
>
>  ++pac
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 9fans-bounces+cej=gli.cas.cz@cse.psu.edu [mailto:9fans-bounces+cej=gli.cas.cz@cse.psu.edu] On Behalf Of geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com
> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 8:34 PM
> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> Subject: Re: [9fans] scuzz doesn't like CD-RW?
>
> I just burned a CD-R using a SCSI drive and cdfs.
>
> I don't think I normally use scuzz to talk to CD drives, but
>
>        scuzz -r /dev/sd11
>        ready
>        inquiry
>
> works.
>
>