On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 16:04 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 08:26 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > I don't know what to respond to people who won't admit there is an > > advantage to being able to treat a CD-RW as if it is a hard-drive. > > Well, more like a giant floppy than a hard drive (tedius, slow, and not > too reliably). > If it makes anyone happier it is like a big floppy rather than a hard drive. So is a zip drive. But they are very handy for saving files for backup purposes. Not files of many megs but files bigger than 1.4M. > I have played with InCD, in the past. You needed appropriate drivers to > read files written that way on any system that needs to read the disc > (hence why it's warned against using it for backups, or anything > important). I'd imagine that driver problem still exists in Windows, > unless Windows came with extra, special, drivers by now. Though the > various packet schemes used to be incompatible with each other (Nero's > versus others). On windoiws you don't need special drivers. But the truth is as follows: 1. I finally tried it. Windows formatted CD-RW will not work in Linux machines. 2. The company that makes CD-RW says that it is good for 1000 accesses but it is not. 3. However if you don't have a zip drive these CDs are great for backups of moderate size files that you want to do regularly. With that I think we have killed this subject. > > It's something you have to test rather than just depend on. > > -- > [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr > 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 > > Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > > > -- ======================================================================= "Elves and Dragons!" I says to him. "Cabbages and potatoes are better for you and me." -- J. R. R. Tolkien ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
