DVD RAM, die unterschaetzte Loesung als externer Datenspeicher. Das Produkt ist sehr gut, habe keine Fehler entdecken koennen. Dass ich versehentlich mit Cardridge gekauft habe, obwohl ich nur fuer das PC-Laufwerk was wollte, das treibt den Preis natuerlich hoch. Jedenfalls ein gutes, einwandfrei funtionierendes Speicherprodukt.

Fuer Linux (Ubuntu) gibt es uebrigens eine brauchbare Anleitung:


DVD-RAM is very old so there is no new info. Old and underestimated. DVD-RAM on Ubuntu Linux is easy. I use Ubuntu 16.10 with XFCE4 but that does not matter at all.

Why DVD-RAM? Because it is more reliable and more stable archiving data. See Wikipedia for details on DVD-RAM.

However, DVD-RAM is rather an external drive than a DVD to write on. Not all drives can write and read. However, most modern Laptop and Computer optical drives can.

Careful: DVD-RAM is slow by modern means. Don't force the mount and umount to break.

We have to format it as UDF file system. This is the appropriate FS for the DVD-RAM (I do not quote the details here, use duckduckgo.com)

Know your CD-Writer: Mount a CD, with "mount" watch out for the name. Like /dev/sr0.

Take the DVD-RAM out of the cartridge if necessary, put it in your drive and reboot.

Prepare:

sudo apt-get install udftools
sudo apt-get install dvd+rw-tools

Make a mount point:

sudo mkdir /mnt/dvdram0

and adapt the user rights etc. You need to adapt the rights again for the mounted DVD-RAM (different than vfat floppy or external drive).

Adapt the fstab:

sudo vim /etc/fstab

For automatic mount enter a new line like

/dev/sr0 /mnt/dvdram0 auto user,users,rw,auto,exec,utf8 0 0

The first auto may better be "udf". The second auto depends on you: Try noauto if the boot process hangs.

Format the DVD-RAM:

sudo mkudffs --media-type=dvdram /dev/sr0

The default options for mkudffs probably match your needs. Otherwise: man mkudffs !

Mount the DVD-RAM:

mount /dev/sr0

should do it, otherwise use as sudo mount /dev/sr0. With the fstab entry it will be found.

When you ask your CLI now with mount it should answer something like:

/dev/sr0 on /mnt/dvdram0 type udf (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,utf8,user=myname)

Now again adapt the access rights for the mounted(!) drive:

sudo chown myname /mnt/dvdram0
sudo chmod u+rwx /mnt/dvdram0

Test your access rights:

mkdir /mnt/dvdram0/mydirectory

without sudo it should work. Otherwise check the rights.

Do a reboot now or restart all relevant services.

So now we have

installed the tools
prepared to mount
formatted the DVD-RAM
mounted it in the file system
adapted the user access

It shall be available in the file manager like a normal drive. Watch out for /mnt/dvdram0 (and in Nemo create a bookmark).

Unmounting takes time because of write completion. It is done from CLI or try to find a way in your browser.