Re: CDRDAO -- can it record iso files?

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

That worked perfectly!  I don't understand why.

I have been trying to back-up to CD-RW via tar and I could not get this to
work.  Perhaps I won't be able to unless I can find a 650Mb area on my
hard-drive to store a file to write onto the CD.  Or perhaps figure out a
way to append onto an existing CD-RW.

Anyway, thanks for all your help!

 > From: Qian Gong <http://www.tue.nl/~q.gong>
 > Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:24:12 +0100
 >
 > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:37:42PM -0500, Robert wrote:
 > > [snip] 
 > > Yes.  It's all below.  You'll notice:
 > > 
 > > 1) blanking seems to work
 > > 2) (surprisingly) small ISO images work:
 > >    a) written via cdrecord
 > >    b) "mount" of the CD-ROM works
 > > 3) cdrdao doesn't work, even with small ISO images
 > > 
 > > [snip]
 > 
 > It seems the problem is related to the data file. Perhaps you can try
 > another bigger iso file. For example,
 > 
 > # mkisofs -RJ -o test.iso /path/to/big/file/or/directory
 > # vi test.toc
 > CD_ROM
 > TRACK MODE1
 > DATAFILE "test.iso"
 > # cdrdao write --device 0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc test.toc
 > 
 > If writing finish successfully, you have to eject it before trying to
 > mount it.
 > 
 > Good luck,
 > 
 > Qian