On 2008-04-16, Unix Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hannah Schroeter wrote: > >> (Please wrap your lines) > > > > I cannot, the Webmail provider formats it out.. I believe it's sending the email as MIME, it is out of my control - deal with it. > > > > Hannah Schroeter wrote: > >> IIRC not, I have a DVD-RAM drive and it probes as cd(4), not as sd(4). > > > > Why is everyone ignoring me?
People often ignore messages that are hard to read. other email service providers are available... I wasn't asking if the device could be attached as "sd", I meant.. could DVD-RAM drives be "used" as if they're "like" an ordinary drive that attached to sd(4). > > > > Can you newfs "any" file system, or blindly read/write/seek on the device? i.e: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/cd0c ??? > > > > I thought DVD-RAM were unique in that, unlike DVD-RW, you can write to the disk as if it's simply an optical hard drive... > > > > *Sigh* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-RAM > > > > DVD-RAM (DVDbRandom Access Memory). > > > > > > > > -Nix Fan.
