Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
From: Joerg Schilling
Date: Mon Feb 13 2006 - 10:12:19 EST
Anders Karlsson <trudheim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2/13/06, Joerg Schilling <schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [snip]
> > - Older CD-writers identified as WORM although a CD-R is not a WORM.
>
> Nitpicking I know, but technically, CD-R is WORM in the case of single
> session write. And as long as the writer works, who cares if it is
> labled WORM, CD-R or Earthworm..
If you did know what a worm is, you would know that you are not correct:
A WORM allows you to randomly write any sector once.
A CD-R does not allows you to do this.
Jörg
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