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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: mkisofs coredumping when attempting to write to HP SureStore 4020i
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 16:14:29 -0700 (MST)
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> > You *never* run mkisofs against a writer device.  Ever.
> 
> If the filesystems perform fast enough, and the worm driver will be
> sophisticated enough (some day :), you could in fact do it.

Yeah, but it's harder.

I don't know anyone who's rich enough to buy a writer but too poor to
buy a disk to build ROM images on.

You want to test your images before you put them on ROM ($10 a pop or so).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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