| Subject | : | CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | BigWarpGuy |
| Date | : | 17 Aug, 2001 on 22:52 |
| I just ordered a cd-rw drive from http://www.tigerdirect.com. It was on sale for $69. It is made by Philips. Is there OS/2 software that can be used with a cd-rw drive? Will it be possible to create an installation cd-rom (ver 4) with fixpaks installed? OS/2 Warp-ed to the very end. |
| Subject | : | Re:CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | Kim |
| Date | : | 17 Aug, 2001 on 23:20 |
| Guess that either RSJ Writer or CDrecord/2 should do the jobb. Guess that it is an IDE drive? I don't think that You should have any headache to get it to work. //Kim |
| Subject | : | Re:CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | pipes |
| Date | : | 17 Aug, 2001 on 23:32 |
| If you are going to look into RSJ, go to their site's www.rsj.de Newsgroup... you will learn a lot. I still can't can't get it to work with my CD-R... ("access denied errors"). I have yet to successfully get the CD/Recorder (free ware?) with EMX runtime to work, but that was earlier this year. I need to get back at that.
-Peter |
| Subject | : | Re:CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | Kim |
| Date | : | 17 Aug, 2001 on 23:38 |
| What drive do you have? Is it on the supported list? Does it mount the cdr during boot? More info! //Kim |
| Subject | : | Re:CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | Christian Hennecke |
| Date | : | 18 Aug, 2001 on 22:35 |
There are three options: RSJ, cdrecord/cdrdao and the new OS2CDROM.DMD. Using RSJ's IFS you can seamlessly access the CD-RW like a harddisk. Extremely good, but expensive. The "audio part" of RSJ isn't too great. cdrecord needs to work with images created with mkisofs, but if you use Audio/Data-CD-Creator, it's easy to use. Then there is the new OS2CDROM.DMD from IBM from the new IDEDASD package. Klaus Staedtler reportet that he is transparently accessing his CD-RW like a harddisk. Cool, eh?
Yes, you can use UpdCD from Zsolt Kadar to do this. The package is on Hobbes. |
| Subject | : | Re:CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | pipes |
| Date | : | 27 Aug, 2001 on 18:46 |
I have a external SCSI 8x "generic" burner. I got it for a real good price at a garage sale. Windows and OS/2 pick up the drive and I can burn just fine in Win NT, but either OS/2 Warp or Warp Server for ebiz just doesn't cut it.. kinda a bummer. The burner also works with a Mac... yes, a Mac, nice thing about SCSI external. ![]() The latest ver of RSJ picks up the drive and I can attach just fine... but err msgs aren't the best to troubleshoot. Take a look at my postings in RSJ's newsgroup. -Peter |
| Subject | : | Re:CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | Kim |
| Date | : | 27 Aug, 2001 on 19:41 |
| The bad news with RSJ Writer is that it is not the fastest software to be updated with new CDR-units. But, in the other hand You are actually able to make the small updated needed to get the most of the drives to work. Take a look in cddrv.inf and you figure out what I mean; might not be for novice but still it is very easy to make the proper changes to get it to run. //Kim |
| Subject | : | Re:CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | BigWarpGuy |
| Date | : | 17 Sep, 2001 on 19:44 |
| My cd-rw was not on either the compatible or noncompatible list but it worked with the RSJ cdwriter software. It recognized it - it is a Philips 800 series cd-rw drive. RSJ worked with it. I burned a cdr on 09-14-2001. I bought the RSJ software from BMTMicro. I will try the it on a cd-rw disc next.
OS/2 Warp-ed to the very end. |
| Subject | : | Re:CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | Kim |
| Date | : | 18 Sep, 2001 on 21:50 |
| What You could do then us to notify RSJ about the model of CD that You have so the can add your CDR-unit on the list for supported hardware. //Kim |
| Subject | : | Re:CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | BigWarpGuy |
| Date | : | 19 Sep, 2001 on 16:02 |
| I have informed them of the fact that their software works with a Philips 800 series CD-RW drive. PS I have tried it with a cd-rw disc and it works (at least writing to the disc). I have not tried removing something from the disc. PSS I will be trying a mini-cdr and/or mini-cdrw disc when I can find either/or of the disc's. OS/2 Warp-ed to the very end. |
| Subject | : | Re:CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | pipes |
| Date | : | 24 May, 2004 on 17:11 |
| Wow! old thread. The 8x SCSI drive external PSU died, so I had to connect it internally, then it died a few months ago... I got a Samsung 54x CDRW IDE with 8mb onboard Cache, for under $70. I got it to burn nicely with CDRecord/2 (v52) and its necessary items. I can't make it delete any contents of the disc nor fast blank, etc.. when using a 4x CDRW disc. I can blank the disc in Nero on Windows (booo, yes I know), then I can reuse the disc in OS/2. Odd. |
| Subject | : | Re:CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | Roland junker@despamhydrografix.com |
| Date | : | 29 May, 2004 on 10:20 |
| There are three options: .. the new OS2CDROM.DMD. .... Then there is the new OS2CDROM.DMD from IBM from the new IDEDASD package. Klaus Staedtler reportet that he is transparently accessing his CD-RW like a harddisk. Cool, eh? I tried it with the new os2cdrom.dmd and after reboot, I see the CD-RW mapped as hard disk, but I'm not able to write anything to it. |
| Subject | : | Re:CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | devnul |
| Date | : | 29 May, 2004 on 13:17 |
You must format the CD-RW using UDF first, 'works' since long but in former times only with selected drives and slower than a snail. But now it's quite usable. |
| Subject | : | Re:CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | Roland junker@despamhydrografix.com |
| Date | : | 29 May, 2004 on 14:01 |
Thank's. I got it, first I had only a CD-R in, not a rewritable. after change to CD-RW there is no problem anymore. I had time to read the text files in the os2\boot directory, too. Beeing able to read is an advantage. ![]() |
| Subject | : | Re:CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | pipes |
| Date | : | 29 May, 2004 on 19:47 |
| You must format the CD-RW using UDF first, 'works' since long but in former times only with selected drives and slower than a snail. Where/how can I get it to format it via UDF? Can Audio CD Creator or CDRecord/2 do this? Thanks, |
| Subject | : | Re:CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | Pete losepete@ntlworld.com |
| Date | : | 31 May, 2004 on 22:28 |
| Hi You should have a udf readme file somewhere but these are the format and chkdsk commands:- 6.0 FORMAT and CHKDSK Parameters Syntax of the FORMAT command for the UDF file system is the following: FORMAT drive /FS:UDF [/S:setid] /V:label[/F] [/L] [/ONCE] [/Y] [/BM:B|E] PARAMETER DESCRIPTION drive A drive letter (e.g. C:, D:, E:, etc.)
CHKDSK drive [/y|/n] [/c] [/F] [/f] [/q|/v|/V] [/t:filename] PARAMETER DESCRIPTION drive A drive letter (e.g. C:, D:, E:, etc.)
o Some parameters for CHKDSK command are case-sensitive. o Parameter /BM is used for media with limited rewriting capability, such If CD-RW, DDCD-RW, DVD+RW or DVD-RW media cannot be formatted Of course you can always use PMFormat and PMChkdsk as well. Regards Pete |
| Subject | : | Re:CD-RW Drive and OS/2? |
| Author | : | devnul |
| Date | : | 31 May, 2004 on 22:36 |
| >Of course you can always use PMFormat and PMChkdsk as well. No, fresh media has to be formatted with UDF first from command-line. Afterwards you can use PMFormat on the same media too |