[5554] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: scsi cd rewritable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael H. Warfield)
Sun Jan 10 13:54:56 1999
From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901081540.JAA00454@mydot.com> from Michael Wilhelm at "Jan 8, 1999 8: 6:40 am"
To: michael@amintech.com
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 14:39:18 -0500 (EST)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Michael Wilhelm enscribed thusly:
> Does any one know of a scsi CD-RW that will run under linux and
> with a RW cd in it it will act as a normal drive that you can write to?
I use the Sony SCSI CD-RW.
Yes it runs just fine, but it doesn't work like "rotating magnetic"
(standard disk drives). CD-RW are CD-R disks which you can erase (by
track or disk) and then rerecord over the erased area. They are not
like standard read write drives where you can randomly pick a sector
and rewrite the sector.
I've got a CD-RW drive at the office and use it quite a bit. Most
of the time it's to cut CD-Rs. I've got a library of CD-RWs for things that
get erased and rerecorded once an update is out. It's a step above
multisession CD-Rs where you can add new stuff, but it's no where near the
same as a real drive.
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