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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] cdrw?  dvdrw ?
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Date: Tue,  7 Jan 2003 11:33:28 -0500
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> Are cd-burners/cdrw drives standardised these days such that plan9 can burn
> CDs any current drive - at one time only a few where supported.

> If so do these work for R/W's as well as WORM disks?

CD-RWs and CD-Rs, yes.  If by WORM you mean CD-R, yes.
(I've never seen them named WORM, but I suppose they are.)

> Also are/all any dvd writers be supported ?

I haven't tried but I believe that writing to DVDs
will just work in cdfs.  Someone (Richard Miller?)
was trying this at one point.  

The hard part there is creating the images.
Most systems won't read 9660 images burnt to DVD.
If you don't care about other systems reading the
DVD, then arbitrary byte streams should just work,
if not immediately then with minimal effort.

Russ