From: geoff@collyer.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: RE: [9fans] DVD & scuzz
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 23:09:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <827a344e0ae2aabf203f2f0417ecd201@collyer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ACCF003CBA3D09458207DB0CB86AD17D201542@XMAIL.asuch.cas.cz>
It appears that you need to fixate, even in the case you describe.
Failing to do so caused my DVD drive to remain busy until I reset the
machine.
The DVD formats other than DVD-RAM, even the so-called `RW' formats,
really don't fit the old block-device model. The RW formats require
an erase pass, then a sustained-burn pass, ending with fixation. The
R formats don't require the erase pass, but aren't rewritable.
DVD-RAM actually does permit seeking to and rewriting individual
sectors and doesn't require fixation; it's much more rational for
storing data (and copes better with errors than DVD+, which copes
better than DVD-).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-16 7:09 UTC|newest]
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2006-01-16 6:37 cej
2006-01-16 7:09 ` geoff [this message]
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2006-01-13 22:47 ` geoff
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