Re: Packet writing issue on 2.6.15.1

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:10:56 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:

> The difference between packet mode and MRW mode is that MRW reserves 
> some of the disc for bad sector sparing, and the drive firmware handles 
> the reblocking rather than pktcdvd ( it also handles the sector 
> remapping ).  Packet mode was around first and has wider support and 
> requires less from the drive's firmware, but these days, it seems that 
> the vast majority of drives support MRW.

I don't think many DVD burners support MRW. At least that's the impression
I got from reading a lot of drive reviews. It's a strange thing because
most combo drives seem to support it. AFAIK the DVD+MRW standard is quite
new so that would explain part of it but I'm still wondering why the
drives wouldn't support CD-MRW.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
syrjala@xxxxxx
http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/


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