My suggestion:
Create a new type, called Raw or Rawdisk (Capitalization and
hyphenization dont bother me now), for the simple reason that DVD+RW,
DVD-RAM, Hard Drives, Floppy Drives (like the 120MB floppies, 250MB
Iomega stuff, 2GB Jazz stuff, and others) will behave in the very same
way. This
Hi!
Arno Lehmann wrote:
>> Test to demonstrate the random WRITE access of the media (expected on
>> DVD+RW and DVD-RAM, unexpected otherwise)
>> goldstein# dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1k count=1 of=/dev/cd0d seek=10
>> 1+0 records in
>> 1+0 records out
>> 1024 bytes transferred in 3.046 secs (336 b
count=1 | hexdump -C
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
||
*
0400
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1024 bytes transferred in 0.001 secs (1024000 bytes/sec)
Thanks for considering the idea
Evaldo Gardenali
