Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

Anders Karlsson <trudheim@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/13/06, Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> 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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