> > Just read an article in the paper about Panasonic's new
> > DVD-RAM, rewritable CD's up to 17Gb - anyone know of any
> > support/development currently happening with respect to
> > rewritable CD devices?
> 
> If the DVD-RAM part is like the Panasonic PD drive (which it is backwards
> compatiable with AFAIR) then you don't need any special drivers: it works
> as a standard SCSI drive, with virtual cylinders to mimic hard drive
> behaviour. I'm not sure about the CD writing part tho.
> 
Well I tried one of Panasonic's 2.6GB/5.2GB DVD-RAM drives. It was okays as 
a CD-ROM compatible device but the kernel was unable to detect it as a direct 
access device. Unfortunately I no longer have access to the drive to 
experiment with it more.

Mike