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Panasonic DVD-RAM and FAT32. Anybody ever use this in OS X?
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Panasonic has a combo DVD-RAM/DVD-R drive. Windows XP can format FAT32 DVD-RAM discs.
I was wondering if anyone has ever tried to mount one of these things under OS X. That would be interesting.
I'm starting to wonder if I should I get one of these instead of the Pioneer A04 DVD-RW.
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Originally posted by Eug:
<STRONG>Panasonic has a combo DVD-RAM/DVD-R drive. Windows XP can format FAT32 DVD-RAM discs.
I was wondering if anyone has ever tried to mount one of these things under OS X. That would be interesting.
I'm starting to wonder if I should I get one of these instead of the Pioneer A04 DVD-RW.</STRONG>
Does anyone have first hand experience with the data capabilities of DVD-RW vs. DVD+RW vs. DVD-RAM?
Windows XP has native DVD-RAM support with random read/write access like a hard drive. My understanding is that both DVD-RW and DVD+RW would be nowhere near as flexible, and that will remain true even when DVD+RW gets better support in the not-so-near future. My info is that both DVD-RW and DVD+RW only support sequential read/write.
For video, my DVD player supports all the DVD formats, including DVD-RAM, but DVD-R is by far the most compatible format. DVD+R is still unavailable. It'd be nice for now to have the ease of use of Firewire and DVD-RAM, with DVD-R as a backup (Panasonic drive), for the best of most worlds. It'd be nice to also be able to use DVD-RAM under X (esp. with FAT32), but if not I could still have the fall back to DVD-R.
Unfortunately, DVD-RAM isn't as future proof, but better DVD+RW support seems a long way off. DVD-RW still seems like one of the better bets although the data support isn't supposed to be so robust.
Ie.
I'm considering either DVD-RW now or else DVD-RAM/R now. Then I'd upgrade to the flavour of the month in 2 years. Or else wait 6 months and not have any DVD-writer capability at all. (My DVD/CD Firewire enclosure is already on the way though.)
[ 04-12-2002: Message edited by: Eug ]
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I yanked out my DVD-RW drive from my mac so I could use it in my PC. Burned a DVD-R in ISO9660 format for MP3s and it worked fine under Windows and OS X.
Mike
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Originally posted by starman:
<STRONG>I yanked out my DVD-RW drive from my mac so I could use it in my PC. Burned a DVD-R in ISO9660 format for MP3s and it worked fine under Windows and OS X.
Mike</STRONG>
Thanks, but I was wondering more about DVD-RAM (FAT32 or not) support in X.
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<Eug>
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Originally posted by <Eug>:
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Thanks, but I was wondering more about DVD-RAM (FAT32 or not) support in X.</STRONG>
Hmmm... According to this article, it seems that OS X only supports HFS, HFS+, or UFS.
That's too bad, since one standard that would be useful would be UDF, which apparently OS 9 supports. OS 9 also apparently supports HFS and HFS+ (obviously), and "DOS formats". I hope that means FAT32 as well.
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Originally posted by Eug:
<STRONG>Panasonic has a combo DVD-RAM/DVD-R drive. Windows XP can format FAT32 DVD-RAM discs.
I was wondering if anyone has ever tried to mount one of these things under OS X. That would be interesting.
I'm starting to wonder if I should I get one of these instead of the Pioneer A04 DVD-RW.</STRONG>
I haven't tried it with DVD-RAM, but I did have a hard drive (Fat32) that was installed in a PC and put it in a firewire case and OS 9 and OS X saw it fine (3 partitions).
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