Formatting CDs

[Mike McCarty]

Thufir wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:54:14 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
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>>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:
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> "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. "
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> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_writing>
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> 
> At least the third time this wikipedia article has been posted to this 
> thread :(

I'm aware of that. Using "packet writing" does not allow
Linux to use the ORDINARY commands cp, rm etc. AIUI.

Mike
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