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From: Gess Shankar <gess@knex.mind.org>
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Subject: Re: CD-ROM's do all read and write now?
Message-ID: <940510.182346.6p8.rusnews.w165w@knex.mind.org>
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 18:23:46 EST
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Reply-To: gess@knex.mind.org (Gess Shankar)
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rme81977@zach.fit.edu (Brian Fritz/ ADVISOR Russell (MAE)) writes:

> Can someone tell me if all CD drives read and write now?  Which ones
> are the "top of the line"?
> Thanks
> -BRian

All CD-ROM drives only READ. Hence the ROM moniker. CD-Recordables
are available, however. You use a recordable media (same form factor
as a CD-ROM) and premastered images can then be written (say in
ISO-9660 format) to the CD-R media. This can be read by all CD-ROM
drives.

While prices for CD-R recorders are coming down (Quad speed Yamaha
around $4000 e.g.), it is not a piece of equipment that you use for
reading and writing as in a WORM or hard disk. While they are good
for writing, you need to prestage everything and write a whole track
at-once. And the READ performance is abominable. Archiving and producing
CD-ROM masters/small production runs are primary applications.

I have not seen any support from any premastering software vendors for
OS/2. I am working on one.

GeSS
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