Formatting CDs

[Ian Malone]

On 27/06/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 14:24 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
> > On 27/06/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 21:33 -0500, Justin W wrote:
> > > > Thufir wrote:
> > > > > I'm not sure that it's possible to mount a CD R/W such that you can write
> > > > > and read to it dynamically with random access.

> > > > If I remember correctly, a version of Nero on Windows used to be able to
> > > > do that.  Unfortunately, I never used it because the only time I tried
> > > > to, the computer glitched and permanently destroyed my CDRW, so I've
> > > > never tried again.

> > > The above is incorrect. Nero is a program that can format a CD-RW under
> > > windows. Once formatted the CD can be used like any of the hard-drives.

> > I seem to remember InCD was required (and needing to install it
> > on other machines that wanted to be able to read the disc).

> InCD is part ot the Nero distribution.

What I mean is that this is a Nero facility, not native to Windows.
Nero is (was?) available for Linux, I don't know whether there was
a Linux version of InCD.

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imalone