Formatting CDs

[Thufir]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:54:14 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:


> I am not aware that one can do something to a CDROM using Windows which
> will allow Linux to use simple cp, rm, etc. commands to modify the
> content of that CDROM. Are you sure you have this right?

I think it's a massively bad idea, and expensive, and slow, and looks to 
be error prone, but:


"Packet writing is an optical disc recording technology used to allow 
writeable CD and DVD media to be used in a similar manner to a floppy 
disk. "


<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_writing>


At least the third time this wikipedia article has been posted to this 
thread :(



-Thufir