On 27/06/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 21:33 -0500, Justin W wrote: > Thufir wrote: > > I'm not sure that it's possible to mount a CD R/W such that you can write > > and read to it dynamically with random access. > >
> > > If I remember correctly, a version of Nero on Windows used to be able to > do that. Unfortunately, I never used it because the only time I tried > to, the computer glitched and permanently destroyed my CDRW, so I've > never tried again. > > I'd venture to guess that Nero installed a CD-ROM driver in Windows and > took care of writing to the CD in a proprietary format. In that way, > I'd also assume that using only software to manage that would not be > possible, as device driver-level support would also be required. >
The above is incorrect. Nero is a program that can format a CD-RW under windows. Once formatted the CD can be used like any of the hard-drives.
I seem to remember InCD was required (and needing to install it on other machines that wanted to be able to read the disc). -- imalone
