[3056] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: DVD support?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher B. Smith)
Thu Jan 8 01:17:50 1998
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 01:09:07 -0500 (EST)
From: "Christopher B. Smith" <cbsmith@clarke.envise.com>
To: Scott Smyth <ssmyth@realminfo.com>
cc: "'linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu'" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <B120D8F3B3FFD011836E00A0C920AC870A683B@ras.realminfo.com>
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Scott Smyth wrote:
> We are having problems with a new Pioneer
> DVD ROM drive. It is recognized as a CD-ROM
> device but the driver will not allow you to mount it.
> Does anyone know what the latest on the DVDs is
> and this drive in particular.
Well, DVD's use the UDF (Universal Disk Format --talk about a misnomer)
filesystem (i.e. not the ISO 9660 filesystem used by CD's). Is anyone
working on supporting this filesystem???? For that matter, what sort of
computer stuff is available on DVD right now???
--Chris
