Format DVD

[Galen Henderson]

Hello all. I am trying to format a DVD in ECS. I saw another post
saying that you could FORMAT /fd:udf /L /F but I get a Format Failed,
internal error. I have cdrecord installed with the aspi router and I
also have dvddao installed with it's driver. When I try to format a
DVD-RW dvddao says it is an invalid type 0x000 for DVD-RW. can anyone
tell me what drivers need and what drivers need not be loaded for native
UDF format and copy?

Thanks,
Galen

[Doug Bissett]

You need the UDF.IFS loaded. DVDDAO, and CDRECORD are a different
thing, and are unrelated to UDF. I think that JFS does have a form of
UDF, if you have a registered version of that.

FWIW, I quit using UDF, years ago, for the simple reason that it wears
out RW media very quickly. It also seems that there are many different
versions of the UDF format, and OS/2 only recognizes one of them, so
your disks may not be usable with other forms of UDF, if you wish to
do that.

Hope this helps...
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dougb007 at telus dot net
(Please make the obvious changes, to e-mail me)

[Doug Bissett]

On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:12:06 UTC, "Doug Bissett"
<dougb007!SP...@telus.net> wrote:

> You need the UDF.IFS loaded. DVDDAO, and CDRECORD are a different
> thing, and are unrelated to UDF. I think that JFS does have a form of
> UDF, if you have a registered version of that.

Arrrgh! I meant RSJ, not JFS...

[e-co]

try cdrtools 2.01.01a59, it supports UDF:

http://ecomstation.ru/projects/dvdtoys/?action=down

[Hendrik Schmieder]

Doug Bissett schrieb:

>
It also seems that there are many different
> versions of the UDF format, and OS/2 only recognizes one of them, so
> your disks may not be usable with other forms of UDF, if you wish to
> do that.

From UDF Readme
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]
[/MTR] [/V] [/W] [/ERASE:MIN|FULL] [/REV:1.50|2.00|2.01]
[/NOFMT]

PARAMETER DESCRIPTION

drive A drive letter (e.g. C:, D:, E:, etc.).
/S:setid Volume Set Identifier.
/V:label Volume label.
/F or /L Low-level formatting.
/Y Assume a YES response to all questions asked by FORMAT.
/ONCE Format without any questions to user.
/BM:B|E Determines Space Bitmap disposition on the disk:
B - at the beginning,
E - at the end,
by default - at the middle.
/V Disk verification before logical formatting.
/MTR Format media according to the Mount Rainier Standard.
/W Wait for low-level formatting to complete.
/ERASE:MIN|FULL
Erase disk: MIN - minimal, FULL - complete disk.
/REV:1.50|2.00|2.01
OSTA UDF data format revision.
/NOFMT No logical format.

So at least the latest package recognize UDF revision 1.50, 2.00 and
2.01.

BTW:
Revision 2.10 is for Blue Ray.

Hendrik