[Gllug] Cheep backup solution

[Stephen Harker]

On Thursday 22 August 2002 12:16 pm, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stan [mailto:stan at plato.wadham.ox.ac.uk]
> > Sent: 22 August 2002 12:09
> > To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Gllug] Cheep backup solution
> >
> > > SCSI or IDE?
> >
> > I'm using IDE
> >
> > > A friend did mention DVDs, although he was talking about the older
> > > version of the writable disks (I can't remember all the different
> > > standards) as they were cheep now because production is stopping.  I
> > > might take another look though.
> >
> > The number of standards is reducing.  The two main ones seem to be -
> > and + As far as I can tell + is 'better' (ie more compatible with
> > normal DVD drives) but - was quicker to market.  Both are about but -
> > seems to have a head start...do I even need to mention VHS
> > and Betamax?
>
> erm, so the standards are called:
> + (pronounced plus?)
> - (pronounced minus?)

I have been playing with a SONY DVD+RW drive for the last few weeks and it 
works great. It is easy to write to them with linux 
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
and you can add data after the event until its full and it seems to be 
readable just fine in a regular DVD-ROM (I've only tried a couple.) However, 
the Media is more expensive at the moment.
It is also a true random access media, which means that you can write ext2, 
vfat or whatever filesystems on it (although I'm not sure why you would). I 
think this needs a kernel patch though.
Steve

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Stephen Harker
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