Messages in this thread | | | From | "D. Hazelton" <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:24:15 -0500 |
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On Monday 13 February 2006 10:12, Joerg Schilling wrote: > 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.
Joerg, the practical definition of WORM is "Write Once, Read Many" - whether or not it supports writes to random sectors is a moot point, a CDR does seem to fit the bill of a "write once, read many" medium.
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