Date:         Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:56:35 -0400
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
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From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: DVD as output of datastep or proc append

...what also might be a problem: after a APPEND the dataset header has to
be updated (NOBS, FORMATS, ....). Don't know if that is working with a RW-
DVD. With a rewritable that should work.
I also think that the driver does not accept a "normal" RW DVD. It should
be rewritable. Its very far away, cause I stopped my trials with
rewritable CD's many years ago, cause the quality, performance and data
security was too bad. Also all the different drivers were not compatible
and changing a drive, also with the same driver didn't work. Perhaps that
is better today, but I don't try any more.
Gerhard




On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:40:30 -0400, Gerhard Hellriegel
<gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE> wrote:

>no, you need a DVD burner for that...
>
>No, that's not enough. You need spezial drivers (as far as I remember in
>WIN-Vista available, otherwise bundled with some of the burning suits,
>like NERO) to assign the burner like a drive. If you can write to that DVD
>like a simulated harddrive, why not from SAS?
>
>However it might depend on how the driver handles the DVD. Also it might
>be full rather fast, if you use it e.g. as the WORK-library. But I expect
>no real problems with that. Simply try it out!
>
>I don't think that it's a difference between 8 and 9.
>
>Gerhard
>
>
>
>
>On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:20:00 -0700, Don <donaldwmayfield@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>>Has anyone written directly to a DVD drive using SAS? ver 8.2 ? ver
>>9.x?