Hi again Just got the latest PC Magazine and I note that my table of CD/DVD acronyms (plagarized from PC World) is already out of date. :-) Now we have CD-MRW where the M refers to Mount Ranier. Although "there have been no specific announcements of DVD+MRW drives yet, Phillips recently proposed an addition ... The Sony DRU-500A apparently ships with Mount Ranier. (The Mount Ranier format put a Main defect table in the Lead-in area (area outside the data area) and a copy of the defect table in the lead-out area.It also sets aside some space in the data area as a "replacement area" where date which would have landed in a bad block is put. The price is somewhat slower reads/writes and slightly reduced capacity. The gain is reliability. Non-MRW drives will need custom software to read MRW data.) doug
I wound up not buying a DVD writer at all. Micro Center had a Buslink
48x12x48 (which when I opened it up turned out to be a 48x24x48) for
$20, and both Micro Center and Best Buy had really good deals on
CD-R's. I'm nervous enough about the mess of formats that I don't
feel like spending $300 on something that might be completely
worthless in 6 months. CD-R's have been around a while and are
completely standard.
At that price, I'll put up with the inconvenience. If I use gzip
rather than bzip2 compression, I think things will be fast enough so
that backups won't be that much of an annoyance.
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Robert Krawitz
Robert L Krawitz
At that price, I'll put up with the inconvenience. If I use gzip rather than bzip2 compression, I think things will be fast enough so that backups won't be that much of an annoyance.
Perhaps the in-kernel transparent decompression option for ISO9660 might be of interest to you? (in case you were not aware of it) -- Josh Huber
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 15:59:28 -0500
From: Josh Huber
At that price, I'll put up with the inconvenience. If I use gzip rather than bzip2 compression, I think things will be fast enough so that backups won't be that much of an annoyance.
Perhaps the in-kernel transparent decompression option for ISO9660
might be of interest to you? (in case you were not aware of it)
I wasn't. The way afio does the compression (running gzip against
each file), that could save some time.
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Robert Krawitz
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