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Date:	Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:09:46 PDT7
From:	"Gary Granat" <ggranat@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	"SCOUG Helpdesk" <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: UDF Driver

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Steven and Jordan,

Thanks for your feedback.

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 23:22:55 -0600 (MDT), Gary Granat wrote:

>When I bought my SOYO Dragon bundle, it came with a "generic" DVD drive. I
>have now swapped that drive for a Plextor PX-W5224A CD-R/RW drive. Is there
>any reason to continue to load the UDF driver now that I don't have a DVD drive
>in the system?

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:41:29 PDT7, J. R. Fox wrote:

>As I noted here recently, I burned CDs successfully (under OS/2, using RSJ) *for
>years* without any UDF driver. Unless someone here knows differently, for a
>certainty, I would say that UDF pertains to DVD *only.*

That was generally my impression when I tried to Google some additional
information about the thing. While it is presented as a general-purpose file
system, it seems that most of the discussion has to do with the DVD
environment.

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:58:48 PDT7, Steven Levine wrote:

>Probably not. UDF is a file system, so it is not limited for working on
>just DVD media. That said, I don't believe IBM's implemenation of UDF
>will allow you to format media other than DVD.

It was the latter part that concerned me. I wasn't sure about whether there
might be a hook to JFS or something. Given that, I'm going to REM the entry in
my config.sys, reboot, and keep my fingers crossed. I'll report the results in
a follow-up message.

--gary
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