DVD support on AIX5 ?

[MoshiachNow]

Hi,

Is DVD supported for read/write (not in backup format !),so that the user can interactively read/write,like with the filesystem ?

Any 3-rd party software ? "Long live king Moshiach !"

http://www.7for70.com/

 

[DSMARWAY]

hi ,

The AIX 4 release notes mention system backups such as mksyb and savevg commands limits the media to be 4.7GB or larger , if you use smaller media would result in corruption if you go beyond that capacity.

Also look at

/usr/lpp/bos.sysmgr/mkcd.README.txt

lists info about doing backups to DVD

HTH

 

[DSMARWAY]

oops slight typo it meant to read AIX 5 release

 

[MoshiachNow]

Thanks,

But I meant read/write interactive data by user. "Long live king Moshiach !"

http://www.7for70.com/

 

[zorr099]

This is only supported on AIX 5.2 and above.

 

[MoshiachNow]

Thanks,

Any doc you can point me to ? "Long live king Moshiach !"

http://www.7for70.com/

 

[zorr099]

Starting point :

http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/en_US/infocenter/base/new.htm

 

[MoshiachNow]

Thanks,

Looked inside,did not find any info on how to read/write interactively (not a backup format). "Long live king Moshiach !"

http://www.7for70.com/

 

[thco]

Here is the link with answer to your question ...

http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixins/insgdrf/whats_new_bos_sw.htm

Bye !!

 

[MoshiachNow]

Thanks.

"Long live king Moshiach !"

http://www.7for70.com/

 

[MoshiachNow]

Thanks,

However this is majorly regarding the sys backup - not FS operations.

"Long live king Moshiach !"

http://www.7for70.com/

 

[andyc333]

We were investigating this for a while with us.

Officially, AIX 5+ supports UFS for DVD-RAM to mimic "packet writing" type environments on Windows. In other words the DVD is treated as a separate filesytem. Suppossedly this is only valid for the DVD-RAM drive IBM ships with it's newer workstations.

UN-Officially IBM says the IDE DVD-ROM drives they ship (ie. on the 615's) might be able to be swapped out with a COTS type DVD burner. From here you can use CD-toast (comes with AIX or avaliable online) to burn DVD's. There's also a 3rd party company you can look into:

http://www.gearsoftware.com/

that supports UNIX for DVD's so long as you a compatible DVD drive.

Hope this helps.

 

[andyc333]

Oops sorry that link came out wrong:

http://www.gearsoftware.com/

 

[MoshiachNow]

thanks

"Long live king Moshiach !"

http://www.7for70.com/