Summary: Accessing DVD-RAM drive

From: Andreas Höschler (ahoesch@smartsoft.de)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2006 - 09:10:51 EDT


Hello all,

> thanks for the responses I got so far. I was told to stop volume
> manager and use cdrw -vl list the available devices. This gives me
>
> Looking for CD devices...
> Node Connected Device Device type
> ----------------------+--------------------------------
> +-----------------
> /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 | MATSHITA DVD-RAM SW-9585 BZS3 | CD
> Reader/Writer
> /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s2 | HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-E10L LE05 | CD
> Reader/Writer
>
> I assume the lower one is the USB-Device (DVD-RAM) I want to use for
> backup purposes, the upper one the built-in DVD-Writer.I now tried to
> create an ufs filesystem on the DVD-RAM as follows. Note,I uses s0
> instead of s2.

Responding to my own question. I further played around and finally got
it working as follows:

        /etc/init.d/volmgt stop
        cdrw -vl

        Get the correct device form the list

        mkfs -F udfs /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s0
        mount -F udfs /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s2 /mnt
        touch /mnt/Test
        ls /mnt
        ...
        umount /mnt

This seems to work, though I have no idea what an udfs filesystem is. I
just hope that it will be able to hold our home dirs.

Regards,

   Andreas
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