From: Peter Osterlund Mention that a new DVD+RW disc has to be formatted before first use. Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff -puN Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt~pktcdvd-small-documentation-update Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt --- 25/Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt~pktcdvd-small-documentation-update Tue Jan 4 15:46:16 2005 +++ 25-akpm/Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt Tue Jan 4 15:46:16 2005 @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ shall implement "true random writes with that it should be possible to put any filesystem with a block size >= 2KB on such a disc. For example, it should be possible to do: + # dvd+rw-format /dev/hdc (only needed if the disc has never + been formatted) # mkudffs /dev/hdc # mount /dev/hdc /cdrom -t udf -o rw,noatime @@ -54,6 +56,7 @@ writes are not 32KB aligned. Both problems can be solved by using the pktcdvd driver, which always generates aligned writes. + # dvd+rw-format /dev/hdc # pktsetup dev_name /dev/hdc # mkudffs /dev/pktcdvd/dev_name # mount /dev/pktcdvd/dev_name /cdrom -t udf -o rw,noatime _