Post B2MMx2qukFFj0tcK2q by karlauerbach@sfba.social
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(DIR) Post #AqsNwXxtTJMiHwEPpo by catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-02-07T13:14:23Z
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swapon /dev/sr0
(DIR) Post #Aqt90JA990NJNqG3mq by lucas@toot.treffenstaedt.de
2025-02-07T13:28:23Z
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@catsalad ok but... would this actually work or does that device not work that way?
(DIR) Post #Aqt90KCJIRhSaqHInY by catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-02-07T13:42:10Z
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@lucas I haven't try this particular setup, but it should work (in theory). It would very slow implementation, however.
(DIR) Post #Aqt90L5G09eVLFzBRY by lucas@toot.treffenstaedt.de
2025-02-07T13:44:43Z
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@catsalad I mean, yeah, but I also have never tried just piping bits into a cd burner, I always kinda assumed you needed specialized software to actually write to it.
(DIR) Post #Aqt90LXyHOcYmJQ7CS by m0xee@social.librem.one
2025-02-07T22:01:57Z
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@lucas @catsalad I think burning optical media is still a bit different from writing to regular block devices, at least you need to issue special commands to open session, finalise session and all that… đŸ¤”
(DIR) Post #B2MMx2qukFFj0tcK2q by karlauerbach@sfba.social
2026-01-17T00:20:48Z
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@catsalad Decades upon decades ago - in the 1970s I think - Mark Kampe at UCLA set up a Unix system to swap onto DECtape.The poor tape drive looked like it was suffering from an epileptic fit, but it all worked, albeit somewhat slowly.We once built an iSCSI based RAID 5 array using USB flash drives.